Given a sentence, how would you write SAS code to extract a specific word from it? For example, given the sentence "this is a sas class", how would you extract the word "sas"?

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To extract a specific word from a sentence in SAS, use string functions like SCAN or INDEX to locate and retrieve the desired word.

Use the SCAN function: SCAN('this is a sas class', 3) returns 'sas'.
Use the INDEX function: INDEX('this is a sas class', 'sas') returns the starting position of 'sas'.
Combine functions: Use SCAN with a loop to extract multiple words if needed.

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Given a sentence, how would you write SAS code to extract a specific word from it? For example, given the sentence "this is a sas class", how would you extract the word "sas"?

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