topic Re: What is the use of "C" modifier in compress function. compress(upcase(fullname),,'c') in SAS Programming

What is the use of "C" modifier in compress function. compress(upcase(fullname),,'c')

veeresh10 — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:56:18 GMT

Hi Team,

In old code "C" modifier used in compress function please find code example below.

data files;
length f_name $200;
infile retail;
input;
f_name=retail;
uname=compress(compress(upcase(f_name),,'c'),' ');
run;

Question: What is the use of "C" modifier in compress function and it would be helpful if anybudy explain with brief examples.
I tried to refer many sites and docs but no budy explained about "C" modifiers.

Re: What is the use of "C" modifier in compress function. compress(upcase(fullname),,'c')

PeterClemmensen — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:07:56 GMT

According to the Compress Function Doc, The 'C' modifier

adds control characters to the list of characters.

You can see examples of control characters here.

Since your data source is an external file, I assume that the file can contain control characters, that need to be removed. No need for two nested Compress Function calls though.

Re: What is the use of "C" modifier in compress function. compress(upcase(fullname),,'c')

BenPri — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:07:57 GMT

Adds all controll characters to the compress function (e.g. carriage return).

https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.2/lefunctionsref/n0fcshr0ir3h73n1b845c4aq58hz.htm

Re: What is the use of "C" modifier in compress function. compress(upcase(fullname),,'c')

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:12:29 GMT

The documentation will tell you everything you need to know (Maxim 1).

As a quick example, run this:

data test;
length c1 c2 c3 $8;
c1 = "X" !! "0d0a09"x !! "Y";
c2 = compress(c1," ","c");
c3 = compress(c1," ","kc");
put c2= $hex16. c3= $hex16.;
run;

and study the log (Maxim 2).

0D = carriage return

0A = linefeed

09 = tab