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The functions listed below provide additional capabilities for searching a string for various types of character data. They were made available beginning in SAS 9.

At the end of the list is a link to the section of the SAS 9.1.3 documentation for functions by category. If you click the link, the Web page you will go to has more live links you can click to get to the various functions.

ANYALNUM Function

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

ANYALPHA Function

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

ANYCNTRL Function

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

ANYDIGIT Function

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

ANYFIRST Function

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 Function

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

ANYLOWER Function

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

ANYNAME Function

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 Function

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

ANYPUNCT Function

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

ANYSPACE Function

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 Function

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

ANYXDIGIT Function

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

If you would like to a list of functions by category, click Functions and CALL Routines.

If you would like to see what characters would be found by the functions in your ASCII or EBCDIC environment, see SAS Note 15435 "Determining which characters the ANY* and NOT* functions find."

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