'LIKE' Operand

[nickdel]

Do anyone know of an alternative to the LIKE operand that can used in an IF statement?

What I'm trying to acheive is something like this:

var_a = 'Hello'

IF var_a like '%llo%' then do;
output;
end;

 

[klaz2002]

You could use the index() function.

data test;
  set your_dataset;
  var_a = 'Hello'

  IF index(var_a,'llo') gt 0 then do;
   output;
  end;
run;

Klaz