Date:         Tue, 23 Nov 1999 00:57:54 GMT
Reply-To:     diltilia@MY-DEJA.COM
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From:         diltilia@MY-DEJA.COM
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Subject:      Re: need help

Ruben,

Try this:

data new;
 set old;
 if index(name,'X') then delete;
run;

(This should delete all the records where "X" appear in variable "name")

-Diltilia

In article <38399B50.E74EAD8C@coruscant.cet.nau.edu>,
  "Ruben J. Kovalcik" <rjk2@coruscant.cet.nau.edu> wrote:
> I need some help for a report that's due tomorrow>and would be very
> grateful for some help.
> i'm trying to delete some records that are in my data set by searching
> for a certain character in a character field. example: '101X' will be
> kept, but i don't know how to determine where an X occurs in the
field.
> how can i identify records that have the X in it?
> thanks for any help.Ruben
>
>


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