If you want to compare at the ASCII level, its probably easiest to use
software designed for that purpose, like diff. There is a plethora of
options however, as for example can be found on this page:
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone16/cat654/
Best,
Lee Sieswerda
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taha Kass-Hout [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 3:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: String Comparison
>
> Hi -
>
> Does anyone recommends a software that allows for string comparison?
> We're
> using SAS proc compare on two SAS datasets, these two datasets are
> converted
> from ASCII - We'd like to do the comparison at the ASCII level because in
> the conversion to SAS we're discovering conversion errors.
>
> Thanks
>
> Taha
>
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