Identify observations of string variable with a specific pair of characters

[Mihir Sharma]

I want to identify those observations of the string variable (x), which contain pair of characters "abs" and "def", anywhere in the string.

E.g. I want to identify the observation if x == "he walked to def and abs later" but not if x == "he walked to def and kkk later" (because I want both "abs" and "def" to be there. How can I do this? So far, I have used strpos().

tab y if strpos(lower(y), "abs")

Many thanks,
Mihir

[Clyde Schechter]

tab y if strpos(lower(y), "abs") & strpos(lower(y), "def")

[Mihir Sharma]

thank you! sorry- that was a silly question in hindsight!