topic Re: equivalent of tranwrd in SAS Programming

equivalent of tranwrd

Jose7 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 01:54:54 GMT

Hi experts,

I'm using tranwrd in sas enterprice guide and works fine, but when i use it in the linux environment it does not work

data ALTAS_DEF;
set ALTAS_DEF;
First_name = tranwrd(First_name, 'ñ', 'n');

run;

i just want to change a letter for other one, do you know a work around about it ? or an equivalent function ?

Re: equivalent of tranwrd

Ksharp — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 02:44:30 GMT

If you only need to change a character ,NOT a word/string, try KTRANSLATE().

data s;
 set sashelp.class;
First_name = ktranslate(name, 'n','ñ');

run;

Re: equivalent of tranwrd

ChrisNZ — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 21:29:03 GMT

For all your accented letters:
data EXAMPLE ;
%* Test string;
STR1 = 'aaâäÊÉŒñbb';
%* Single letter replacements;
STR2 = ktranslate( STR1
, 'AAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaceeeeiiiidnoooooouuuuyy'
, 'ÀÁÂÃÅÄÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕØÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãåäçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõøöùúûüýÿ' );
%* Double letter replacements;
STR3 = tranwrd ( STR2, 'Æ', 'AE' );
STR3 = tranwrd ( STR3, 'æ', 'ae' );
STR3 = tranwrd ( STR3, 'Œ', 'OE' );
STR3 = tranwrd ( STR3, 'œ', 'oe' );
STR3 = tranwrd ( STR3, 'ß', 'ss' );
run;
SAS does not support the regular expression syntax needed to do this in one go.

Re: equivalent of tranwrd

ChrisNZ — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 03:56:54 GMT

I'm using tranwrd in sas enterprice guide and works fine, but when i use it in the linux environment it does not work

This makes no sense. The SAS language is the very same on all platforms. I suspect you have another issue, like encoding.

Run this to verify:

%put &=sysencoding;

Re: equivalent of tranwrd

Tom — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:40:40 GMT

It is usually not a good idea to insert non 7-bit ASCII character constants into your program. Then the meaning of the code will change depending on the character encoding that is being used.

The Spanish character "enye" will be stored as different sets of bytes depending on the encoding you are using. And for some single byte encodings it might not even exist.

To check what encoding SAS is using for your SAS session check the value of the ENCODING system option.

Re: equivalent of tranwrd

Jose7 — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:39:17 GMT

Thks, it works