https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Definition-of-punctuation-in-SAS/m-p/35813#M7076 If you look at the documentation on the ANYPUCT function, the following characters are considered punctuation in the ASCII character set:<BR /> <BR /> ! “ # $ % &amp; ‘ ( ) * + , - . / : ; = ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~<BR /> <BR /> In addition, the less than and greater than symbols are also considered punctuation. (I can’t remember how to properly post these characters in this forum.) I would imagine that the same character set would be considered punctuation when using the compress function with the P modifier. Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:03:09 GMT polingjw 2010-11-18T14:03:09Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Definition-of-punctuation-in-SAS/m-p/35812#M7075 When using the compress function with the P modifier, which removes all punctuation from a string, what is the definition of punctuation? Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:42:08 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Definition-of-punctuation-in-SAS/m-p/35812#M7075 deleted_user 2010-11-18T13:42:08Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Definition-of-punctuation-in-SAS/m-p/35813#M7076 If you look at the documentation on the ANYPUCT function, the following characters are considered punctuation in the ASCII character set:<BR /> <BR /> ! “ # $ % &amp; ‘ ( ) * + , - . / : ; = ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~<BR /> <BR /> In addition, the less than and greater than symbols are also considered punctuation. (I can’t remember how to properly post these characters in this forum.) I would imagine that the same character set would be considered punctuation when using the compress function with the P modifier. Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:03:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Definition-of-punctuation-in-SAS/m-p/35813#M7076 polingjw 2010-11-18T14:03:09Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Definition-of-punctuation-in-SAS/m-p/35814#M7077 Thank you. Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:12:01 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Definition-of-punctuation-in-SAS/m-p/35814#M7077 deleted_user 2010-11-18T14:12:01Z