Searches a character expression for a string of characters.
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DBCS
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| Restriction: |
I18N Level 2
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| Tip: |
Non-DBCS equivalent function is INDEX in
SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
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source
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specifies the character expression to search.
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excerpt
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specifies the string of characters to search
for in the character expression.
| Tip: |
Enclose a literal string
of characters in quotation marks. |
The KINDEX function searches source, from left to right, for the first occurrence of the
string that is specified in excerpt, and returns
the position in source of the string's first
character. If the string is not found in source,
KINDEX returns a value of 0. If there are multiple occurrences of the string,
KINDEX returns only the position of the first occurrence.
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