Flag cases where a given string variable contains a given word

 

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* Flag cases where a given string variable contains a given word.

* The following syntax searches for the word 'spanish'.
* Ray 2002/08/16.

DATA LIST FIXED /str1 1-40(A).
BEGIN DATA 
this is a Spanish word
only Italian here
SPANISH is good
le francais est aussi ok
END DATA.
LIST.

COMPUTE flag=INDEX(UPCASE(str1),'SPANISH')>0.
FILTER BY flag.
LIST.
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