Using regex to remove html elements using SAS DS2

Question

I am getting the below error while trying to remove all the html elements using regex in SAS. Can you please let me know what is the issue ?

Data HTMLData;
filename INDEXIN URL "http://www.google.com/";
input;

textline = _INFILE_;
/*-- Clear out the HTML text --*/
re1 = prxparse("s/<(.|\n)*?>//");
call prxchange(re1, -1, textline);
run;

ERROR: No DATALINES or INFILE statement. ERROR: The INFILE variable has been referenced, but no DATALINES or INFILE statement was found.

That doesn't look like sas-ds2. Why do you include that in the title? — Joe
Also - removed regex as the issue at hand is unrelated to regexes. — Joe

Joe Joe · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-03T14:21:14

You have a filename, but you need an infile statement instead (or in addition). filename is an open code statement, it's just establishing a link between a name literal and a file path.

filename INDEXIN URL "http://www.google.com/";

Data HTMLData;
  infile indexin;
  input;

  textline = _INFILE_;
  /*-- Clear out the HTML text --*/
  re1 = prxparse("s/<(.|\n)*?>//");
  call prxchange(re1, -1, textline);
run;

Using regex to remove html elements using SAS DS2

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