INDEX

INDEX

Searches a character expression for a string of characters

Category: Character

Syntax
Arguments
Details
Examples
See Also

Syntax

INDEX(source,excerpt)

Arguments

source

specifies the character expression to search.

excerpt

specifies the string of characters to search for in the character expression.

Tip:

Enclose a literal string of characters in quotation marks.

Details

The INDEX function searches source, from left to right, for the first occurrence of the string specified in excerpt, and returns the position in source of the string's first character. If the string is not found in source, INDEX returns a value of 0. If there are multiple occurrences of the string, INDEX returns only the position of the first occurrence.

Examples

SAS Statements Results

a='ABC.DEF (X=Y)'; b='X=Y'; x=index(a,b); put x;

10

See Also

SAS Statements	Results
a='ABC.DEF (X=Y)'; b='X=Y'; x=index(a,b); put x;	10

Functions:

INDEXC

INDEXW

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