ANYALNUM

searches a character string for an alphanumeric character and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYALPHA

searches a character string for an alphabetic character and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYCNTRL

searches a character string for a control character and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYDIGIT

searches a character string for a digit and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYFIRST

searches a character string for a character that is valid as the first character in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character is found

ANYGRAPH

searches a character string for a graphical character and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYLOWER

searches a character string for a lowercase letter and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYNAME

searches a character string for a character that is valid in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character is found

ANYPRINT

searches a character string for a printable character and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYPUNCT

searches a character string for a punctuation character and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYSPACE

searches a character string for a white-space character (blank, horizontal and vertical tab, carriage return, line feed, form feed) and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYUPPER

searches a character string for an uppercase letter and returns the first position at which it is found

ANYXDIGIT

searches a character string for a hexadecimal character that represents a digit and returns the first position at which that character is found

BYTE

returns one character in the ASCII or EBCDIC collating sequence

CAT

concatenates character strings without removing leading or trailing blanks

CATS

concatenates character strings and removes leading and trailing blanks

CALL CATS

concatenates character strings and removes leading and trailing blanks

CATT

concatenates character strings and removes trailing blanks

CALL CATT

concatenates character strings and removes trailing blanks

CATX

concatenates character strings, removes leading and trailing blanks, and inserts separators

CALL CATX

concatenates character strings, removes leading and trailing blanks, and inserts separators

CHOOSEC

returns a character value that represents the results of choosing from a list of arguments

CHOOSEN

returns a numeric value that represents the results of choosing from a list of arguments

COLLATE

returns an ASCII or EBCDIC collating sequence character string

COMPARE

returns the position of the left-most character by which two strings differ, or returns 0 if there is no difference

COMPBL

removes multiple blanks from a character string

CALL COMPCOST

sets the costs of operations for later use by the COMPGED function

COMPGED

compares two strings by computing the generalized edit distance

COMPLEV

compares two strings by computing the Levenshtein edit distance

COMPRESS

removes specific characters from a character string

COUNT

counts the number of times that a specific substring of characters appears within a character string that you specify

COUNTC

counts the number of specific characters that either appear or do not appear within a character string that you specify

COUNTQ

counts the number of "words" and quoted strings in a character expression

COUNTW

counts the number of words in a character expression

FIND

searches for a specific substring of characters within a character string that you specify

FINDC

searches for specific characters that either appear or do not appear within a character string that you specify

IFC

returns a character value that matches an expression

IFN

returns a numeric value that matches an expression

INDEX

searches a character expression for a string of characters

INDEXC

searches a character expression for specific characters

INDEXW

searches a character expression for a specified string as a word

INPUTC

applies a character informat at run time

INPUTN

applies a numeric informat at run time

LEFT

left aligns a character expression

LENGTH

returns the length of a character string

LENGTHC

returns the length of a character string, including trailing blanks

LENGTHM

returns the amount of memory (in bytes) that is allocated for a character string

LENGTHN

returns the length of a nonblank character string, excluding trailing blanks, and returns 0 for a blank character string

LOWCASE

converts all letters in an argument to lowercase

CALL MISSING

assigns a missing value to the specified character or numeric variable

NLITERAL

converts a character string that you specify to a SAS name literal (N-literal)

NOTALNUM

searches a character string for a nonalphanumeric character and returns the first position at which it is found

NOTALPHA

searches a character string for a nonalphabetic character and returns the first position at which it is found

NOTCNTRL

searches a character string for a character that is not a control character and returns the first position at which it is found

NOTDIGIT

searches a character string for any character that is not a digit and returns the first position at which that character is found

NOTFIRST

searches a character string for an invalid first character in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character is found

NOTGRAPH

searches a character string for a nongraphical character and returns the first position at which it is found

NOTLOWER

searches a character string for a character that is not a lowercase letter and returns the first position at which that character is found

NOTNAME

searches a character string for an invalid character in a SAS variable name under VALIDVARNAME=V7, and returns the first position at which that character is found

NOTPRINT

searches a character string for a nonprintable character and returns the first position at which it is found

NOTPUNCT

searches a character string for a character that is not a punctuation character and returns the first position at which it is found

NOTSPACE

searches a character string for a character that is not a white-space character (blank, horizontal and vertical tab, carriage return, line feed, form feed) and returns the first position at which it is found

NOTUPPER

searches a character string for a character that is not an uppercase letter and returns the first position at which that character is found

NOTXDIGIT

searches a character string for a character that is not a hexadecimal digit and returns the first position at which that character is found

NVALID

checks a character string for validity for use as a SAS variable name in a SAS statement

PROPCASE

converts all words in an argument to proper case

PUTC

applies a character format at run time

PUTN

applies a numeric format at run time

REPEAT

repeats a character expression

REVERSE

reverses a character expression

RIGHT

right aligns a character expression

SCAN

selects a given word from a character expression

CALL SCAN

returns the position and length of a given word from a character expression

CALL SCANQ

returns the position and length of a given word from a character expression, and ignores delimiters that are inside quotation marks

ROUNDEX

encodes a string to facilitate searching

SPEDIS

determines the likelihood of two words matching, expressed as the asymmetric spelling distance between the two words

STRIP

returns a character string with all leading and trailing blanks removed

SUBPAD

returns a substring that has specified length and is padded with blanks, if necessary

SUBSTRN

returns a substring, allowing a result with a length of zero

SUBSTR

extracts substrings of character expressions

TRANSLATE

replaces specific characters in a character expression

TRANWRD

replaces or removes all occurrences of a word in a character string

TRIM

removes trailing blanks from character expressions and returns one blank if the expression is missing

TRIMN

removes trailing blanks from character expressions and returns a null string (zero blanks) if the expression is missing

UPCASE

converts all letters in an argument to uppercase

UUIDGEN

returns the short or binary form of a Universal Unique Identifier (UUID)

VERIFY

returns the position of the first character that is unique to an
expression