topic Re: Replace em dashes with en dashes in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164032#M31748 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>in the code you posted emdash is '97'x</P><P></P><P></P><DIV style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 11pt;"><SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">translate(text_string,</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #800080; background-color: #ffffff;">'-'</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">,</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #800080; background-color: #ffffff;">'97'x</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">)</SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:29:33 GMT data_null__ 2013-12-04T19:29:33Z Replace em dashes with en dashes https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164029#M31745 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What's a quick way to replace em dashes with en dashes in a text string?</P><P></P><P>data have;</P><P>informat text_string $30.;</P><P>format text_string $30.;</P><P>input text_string $;</P><P>cards;</P><P>This—is_my_string_em_dash</P><P>This-has_a_normal_dash</P><P>This-is_another_em—dash</P><P>Another_normal_-_dash</P><P>;</P><P>run;</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:07:35 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164029#M31745 Reeza 2013-12-04T18:07:35Z Re: Replace em dashes with en dashes https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164030#M31746 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>TRANSLATE function.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:48:14 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164030#M31746 data_null__ 2013-12-04T18:48:14Z Re: Replace em dashes with en dashes https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164031#M31747 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Ok...it shows as EM Dash in text but I guess its actually something else, because that works in example above, but not real data. </P><P></P><P>Hex4 of&nbsp; 9620</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Dec 2013 18:55:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164031#M31747 Reeza 2013-12-04T18:55:49Z Re: Replace em dashes with en dashes https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164032#M31748 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>in the code you posted emdash is '97'x</P><P></P><P></P><DIV style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 11pt;"><SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">translate(text_string,</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #800080; background-color: #ffffff;">'-'</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">,</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #800080; background-color: #ffffff;">'97'x</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">)</SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:29:33 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Replace-em-dashes-with-en-dashes/m-p/164032#M31748 data_null__ 2013-12-04T19:29:33Z