topic Re: Concatenating charater array in SAS Programming

Concatenating charater array

Jakkas — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:34:39 GMT

Is there a sas function that can conactenate all members of a temporary character array using a given seperator? Something like CatX(" ", of myArr) but this doesn't work. Here is a sample code of what I want to accomplish using some function.

Data _null_;

Array myArr {4} $ _temporary_ ("A" "B" "C" "D");

Length catResult $100;

catResult="";

Do i=1 to dim(myArr);

catResult=CatX(" ", catResult,myArr{i});

End;

Put catResult;

Run;

Thanks

Re: Concatenating charater array

Haikuo — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:40:35 GMT

Is this you are after?

Data _null_;

Array myArr {4} $ _temporary_ ("A" "B" "C" "D");

Length catResult $100;

catResult="";

/* Do i=1 to dim(myArr);*/

catResult=CatX(" ", of myArr{*});

/* End;*/

Put catResult;

Run;

Haikuo

Re: Concatenating charater array

data_null__ — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:41:57 GMT

What version of SAS are you using? This should work with temp array V9.2+

catResult=CatX(" ",of myArr{*});