topic Re: Remove brackets in a string in SAS Programming

Remove brackets in a string

SASPhile — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:57:39 GMT

A+(B+C)

(A+B)+C

(A+B+C)

How to remove brackets so the string is A+B+C?

PeterClemmensen — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:02:05 GMT

Use COMPRESS Function like this

data have;
input string $;
datalines;
A+(B+C)
(A+B)+C
(A+B+C)
;

data want;
   set have;
   string=compress(string, "()");
run;

Sri4_ — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:16:24 GMT

how to remove parenthesis in a given string.
in my data having values like 22.9() and 1.9(mg/dl).
i want to remove only () in 22.9() not in 1.9()

PeterClemmensen — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:31:33 GMT

Please open a new thread and describe your problem there.

This thread is 3 years old 🙂

Sri4_ — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:43:38 GMT

can you please tell me how can i open new thread.

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:14:06 GMT

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