Usage Note 32040: New options available for the SCAN FUNCTION in SAS® 9.2
There are two new options that can be used with the SCAN FUNCTION beginning in SAS 9.2.
They are charlist and modifier. The details are below.
charlist
Charlist specifies an optional character expression that initializes a list of characters. This list determines which characters are used as the delimiters that separate words. The following rules apply:
By default, all characters in charlist are used as delimiters.
If you specify the K modifier in the modifier argument, then all characters that are not in charlist are used as delimiters.
Tip: You can add more characters to charlist by using other modifiers.
modifier
Modifier specifies a character constant, a variable, or an expression in which each non-blank character modifies the action of the SCAN function. Blanks are ignored.
Complete information on the new options is available at the link below.
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Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Linux | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Date Modified: | 2010-08-02 15:25:12 |
| Date Created: | 2008-05-08 11:34:24 |
