https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-BASE/m-p/10152#M699 I have one dataset that is having 100 records in that variable names are empname empsalary now i want to eliminate last 2 characters of name variable value from every record? Can any one give clear example for the same? Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:36:13 GMT deleted_user 2008-04-09T11:36:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-BASE/m-p/10152#M699 I have one dataset that is having 100 records in that variable names are empname empsalary now i want to eliminate last 2 characters of name variable value from every record? Can any one give clear example for the same? Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:36:13 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-BASE/m-p/10152#M699 deleted_user 2008-04-09T11:36:13Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-BASE/m-p/10153#M700 Read the documentation for the "substr" function Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:54:28 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/SAS-BASE/m-p/10153#M700 deleted_user 2008-04-09T12:54:28Z