Is there any way to convert string patterns as shown in the map below? - sql

Question

Trying to convert 'Currently' patterns in the above table to 'Turn It Into' patterns in the data set ...
Examples are shown in the next 2 columns for each one....
I tried different ways but I could not get required output ....
Here is the code to get the input data....
data Current;
Input Currently :$40.;
Datalines;
HiKumar"^TM1()^",test
HiKumar"^TM2()^"
HiKumar^TM3()^HiKumar
HiKumar^f(‘VARNAME’).any(‘#’)^
HiKumar^f(‘VARNAME’)^
HiKumar^f(‘VARNAME’).get()==’#’^
HiKumar^f(‘VARNAME’)==’#’^
HiKumar^f(‘VARNAME’).toNumber()^
HiKumar^f(‘VARNAME’).toString()^
HiKumar^f(‘VARNAME’).toString().toLowerCase()^
HiKumar^f(‘VARNAME’).toString().toUpperCase()^
HiKumar^f(‘IFCONDITION’)?’THENTEXT’:’ELSETEXT’^
HiKumar<br>
HiKumar<br/>
HiKumar<br />
HiKumar^MobileHeader()^
HiKumar^MobileFooter()^
HiKumar<u>
HiKumar</u>
HiKumar&nbsp
;
run;

Answer 1

I'd go with regular expressions. You'll need several; here's one to start. (The quotation characters will probably be mucked up by the web browser and/or SAS, so I would recommend replacing those manually rather than trusting the copy/paste if they don't work at first). This only identifies the fourth row, but similar regex's can be constructed for the other rows (and some you should be able to use for multiple rows).
data want;
set current;
rx_1 = prxparse("/\^f\(‘(\w*?)’\)\^/");
rc_1 = prxmatch(rx_1,currently);
if rc_1 ne 0 then have = prxposn(rx_1,1,currently);
run;