Count Function in SAS 9...

Rather than using convoluted techniques to count the occurences of a word in a String…One can use the COUNT() function in SAS9 to get the results…

data _null_ ;

sentence='Are you sure You are working to Learn SAS' ;

num=count(sentence,'are','i') ;

put num= ;

run ;

The results here is 2 …u guessed it right !!!