topic what is the difference in SAS Programming

what is the difference

thanikondharish — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:17:42 GMT

I know compress function and its modifiers like 'kp' 'ka' 'kd' , but couldn't find difference in below program what will happen if I run below program?

data t ;

name='jhon peter' ;

a=compress(name,,'r') ;

run;

what is the difference

thanikondharish — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:57:32 GMT

(duplicate of later post)

Re: what is the difference

DanielLangley — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:52:38 GMT

I couldn't test it but it doesn't look like it will do anything.
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000212246.htm
The documentation shows the different modifiers and it doesn't look like 'r' is a modifier.

Re: what is the difference

kiranv_ — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:54:59 GMT

nothing happens,

to compress r use in second argument.

find the documentation what are allowed in modifiers(third argument) and r is not of them. it generally looking for groups of letter like alphabets(a) digits(d) etc

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

data t ;

name='jhon peter' ;

a=compress(name,'r') ;

run;

Re: what is the difference

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:55:59 GMT

Hi:

You are correct, the R is not a modifier. This is what happens:

Perhaps the OP could clarify what the desired output was going to be using 'R' in the COMPRESS Function.

Cynthia

Re: what is the difference

Kurt_Bremser — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 15:38:12 GMT

Two very easy steps:

Maxim 2: Read the Log
Maxim 1: Read the Documentation