topic How to remove the second character of a string ? in SAS Programming

How to remove the second character of a string ?

Hugo_B — Tue, 21 May 2019 08:45:56 GMT

Hello

I would like to remove the character located a the Second position of a string in the character variable IDCODE.

Do you know how to do that ?

Thank you.

ScottBass — Tue, 21 May 2019 09:00:53 GMT

data class;
   set sashelp.class (keep=name);
   newname=cats(substr(name,1,1),substr(name,3));
run;

andreas_lds — Tue, 21 May 2019 09:03:23 GMT

Maybe something like:

idcode = cats(first(idcode), substr(idcode, 3));