topic how to insert letter in a string in SAS Programming

how to insert letter in a string

thanikondharish — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:12:16 GMT

data s ;
name='sas programmer ' ;
run;

how to insert 'H' in name variable see like below?

Note: without using tranwrd function,substr function

name

sas proHgrammer

Re: how to insert letter in a string

gamotte — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:29:41 GMT

Hello,

What is the ultimate goal and why the relevant tools should be forbidden ?

What criterion does tell us where the letter should be inserted ?

This does what you want but I doubt it really answers your needs.

data s ;
name='sas programmer ' ;
name2=cats(scan(name,1,'g'),'Hg',scan(name,2,'g'));
run;

Re: how to insert letter in a string

RW9 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:48:09 GMT

Why can you not use the functions designed to manipulate strings? To put it another, your not allowed to use the keyboard, now type your messages in - doesn't make any sense right?

Anyways, you would have to loop over the array of characters manually, see below code:

data s;
  /* Note you have to assign a length which is greater than the string length + 1 other wise there will be truncation */
  length name new_name $200; 
  name='sas programmer ';
  do i=1 to lengthn(name);
    if char(name,i-1)=" " then new_name=cat(strip(new_name)," ",char(name,i)); 
    else new_name=cats(new_name,char(name,i));
    if i=7 then new_name=cats(new_name,"H");
  end;
run;

You can sees how much of a waste of time that is!

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