topic Re: Delete Non Printable Characters in SAS dataset in SAS Programming

Delete Non Printable Characters in SAS dataset

Babloo — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 08:59:42 GMT

When I tried to print the values of SAS dataset in HTML form/page, I observed that some non english characters ( e.g. 0000036455 (BSJKK 仙台営業所)) are printed as you see in the attachment . However when I tried to query (e.g. where ID like '0000036455%') the dataset with that value I do not see them at all.

What would be the likely cause for this issue? Any help to resolve this? Not sure if this is some junk characters which was displayed in HTML while printing SAS dataset values. However I should see the number (0000036455) atleast in SAS dataset but I could not see. I'm sure that I'm referring the correct dataset as I could see some values in the dataset which was shown in HTML and in those values there is no junk characters appended with the number.

Re: Delete Non Printable Characters in SAS dataset

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:13:22 GMT

What does the description of the dataset say about this column? It could well be that you see some unformatted binary values (e.g. a raw UUID).

Re: Delete Non Printable Characters in SAS dataset

LinusH — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:14:12 GMT

Maybe you can try to use the compress function with the W modifier.

Re: Delete Non Printable Characters in SAS dataset

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:23:25 GMT

If both the number and the Chinese characters occupy the same column, it seems to me that the number is immediately followed by a blank, so

scan(column,1)

will get you the number without the other stuff.

Re: Delete Non Printable Characters in SAS dataset

Ksharp — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:32:22 GMT

Try these three ways:
1)
where strip(ID) like '0000036455%'

2)
where ID like '%0000036455%'

3)
where find(ID,'0000036455')