topic meaning of second argument in compress function in SAS Programming

meaning of second argument in compress function

thanikondharish — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:25:34 GMT

data have ;

name='sdkfksf%%&545453435' ;

new1=comperss(name, ,'kp') ;

run;

if we run above program new1 variable have only punctuals .

what is the meaning of second argument in compress function?

Re: meaning of second argument in compress function

RW9 — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:32:00 GMT

Did you check the manual?

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000212246.htm

There is a whole section on Modifiers.

Re: meaning of second argument in compress function

Reeza — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:16:55 GMT

The second argument is the character list which specifies the characters you want to have removed. If you only wanted hyphens removed it would be a hyphen in quotes.

I would suggest bookmarking this page:

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&docsetId=pgmsashome&docsetTarget=home.htm&locale=en

Then click on Functions, find the function of interest and you can see all the details for that particular function, such as RAND() or COMPRESS.

@thanikondharish wrote:

data have ;

name='sdkfksf%%&545453435' ;

new1=comperss(name, ,'kp') ;

run;

if we run above program new1 variable have only punctuals .

what is the meaning of second argument in compress function?