Question { 6694 }

We have a string like this "kannafromsalembut" ,from this i
want to get only "fromsal" (but one condition with out
using substring function)here we can not use scan because in
the given string there is no delimeter? so give ans without
out using substring ?

Answer

data _null_;
file print;
tranw=tranwrd('kannafromsalembut','kanna',' ');
tranw1=tranwrd(tranw,'embut',' ');
tranw2=strip(tranw2);
put tranw2= ;
run;
this will give your required output. that is tranw2=fromsal.