topic Add space between two variable values in SAS Programming

Add space between two variable values

jayakumarmm — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 11:56:35 GMT

I have a syntax like below. I what to add a space between two variable. Please help me on this

text2 = cats('"/user/path`',&year,put(lastmonth,nlstrmon.),'filename.txt','"');

for example I am expecting a output like below

"/user/path/2016 AUGUST filename.txt"

Re: Add space between two variable values

Reeza — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:29:47 GMT

Add a space before filename.txt?

Otherwise switch from the CATS() function to a different version of the CAT family of functions that honours spaces.

You can use the || operator as well.

Edit: CATT trims trailing blanks, but keeps leading blanks.

Re: Add space between two variable values

Haikuo — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:28:26 GMT

Might resort to the old school way:

%let year=2016;
data test;
lastmonth=8;
text2 = cats('"/user/path/',&year,' ',put(lastmonth,nlstrmon.),'filename.txt','"');
text_want='"/user/path/'||strip(&year)||' '||put(lastmonth,nlstrmon.)||' '||'filename.txt'||'"';
run;

Re: Add space between two variable values

jayakumarmm — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:42:38 GMT

Thanks a lot. It works great