topic Re: Reg:REplace tab with pipe or ^ in SAS Programming

Reg:REplace tab with pipe or ^

R_Win — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:44:16 GMT

data l i am having a record in a table that data in that record is having with tab Ex: OBS_Data done this ok Now i want to split it in to obs Obs1 -Done Obs2- this obs3-ok or is there any way in the data that we can replace tab with | or ^ Ex: done^this^ok

Re: Reg:REplace tab with pipe or ^

Doc_Duke — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:18:34 GMT

Your question isn't very clear to me. If you have a string and want to replace the tab character with a | or ^, then you can just use the TRANSWRD function.

out = transwrd(in,'09'x,"|");

'09'x is the hex code for a tab in ASCII. If it is an EBCDIC code, you'll need to look it up.

Doc Muhlbaier

Duke

Re: Reg:REplace tab with pipe or ^

R_Win — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:30:07 GMT

done this ok i have tryed on this data for example it shd be Input: done this ok output shd be done|this|ok you can che the text file

Re: Reg:REplace tab with pipe or ^

mkeintz — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:03:47 GMT

You probably want the double trailing @@, which allow you to easily read multiple observations from a single input data line. I believe the tabs will just be treated as white space (so SAS will see each tab-deliminted value as a single variable), so you don't need any DLM stuff unless you have contiguous tabs:

data want;

infile datalines

input text : $10. @@;

datalines;

done this ok

run;

Re: Reg:REplace tab with pipe or ^

Tom — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:21:48 GMT

TABS are not treated the sames as spaces unless you tell it differently on the INFILE statement.

You could use DLM='2009'x to treate space and tab as delimiters

Or use EXPANDTABS to have it convert the tabs to spaces on the way into the input buffer.