https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/susbtr-a-string-of-characters/m-p/330094#M73977 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">length twoWords $16; twoWords = catx(" ", scan(food, 1), scan(food, 2));</CODE></PRE> Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:17:17 GMT PGStats 2017-02-06T04:17:17Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/susbtr-a-string-of-characters/m-p/330092#M73975 <P>HI,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp; AS I am confronted with a problem about'substr', now i just want to get the first two characters from the string of characters.</P><P>like : apple juice is my favorite food. i need the 'apple juice'.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp; &nbsp;i have tried to parse the string and get the var1 for 'apple', var2 for 'juice' and coding like this ' m1 = substr(food,1,compress(var1!!var2)), however, the result is all characters in the string which is not i wanted.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>i am wondering the better solution to it and the reasons why 'compress' not work out.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you!</P> Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:06:36 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/susbtr-a-string-of-characters/m-p/330092#M73975 JNWong 2017-02-06T04:06:36Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/susbtr-a-string-of-characters/m-p/330094#M73977 <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">length twoWords $16; twoWords = catx(" ", scan(food, 1), scan(food, 2));</CODE></PRE> Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:17:17 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/susbtr-a-string-of-characters/m-p/330094#M73977 PGStats 2017-02-06T04:17:17Z