topic String manipulation in SAS Programming

String manipulation

JoshB — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:33:59 GMT

Is there a function/routine in SAS to translate a list of unquoted inputs into an element wise quoted list. A crude example is shown below.

%let t1 = 20105 38163 5947127 10292;
%let t2 = %sysfunc(function(&t1.));

%put t2=&t2.;

t2="20105" "38163" "5947127" "10292"

This list is being input as a parameter to a macro, so I'm hoping to do this step as a input cleanse for use in a where/in statement on a character variable.

Thanks.

Re: String manipulation

FreelanceReinh — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:43:12 GMT

How about this?

%let t1 = 20105 38163 5947127 10292;
%let t2 = "%sysfunc(tranwrd(&t1., %str( ), %str(" ")))";
%put &=t2.;

Re: String manipulation

JoshB — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:47:00 GMT

I would not have know the quotes around the %sysfunc() would remain. Excellent. Thank you.