topic Re: The COMPRESS function used with a modifier ? in SAS Programming

The COMPRESS function used with a modifier ?

ybz12003 — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:18:34 GMT

Hello:

Could someone let me know what are the ‘kd’, ‘ka’,’a’, ‘d’, ‘A’, ‘D’ referring to? Is 'a' the same as 'A' and 'd' the same as 'D'? Thanks.

names=cats(compress(names,"_","ka"),compress(names,"_","kd"));

names=cats(compress(names,"_","d"), compress(names,"_","a"));

num=compress(name,'_','A');

name2=compress(name,' ','D');

mkeintz — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:39:10 GMT

Yes, google can

Search for

sas compress function options

ballardw — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:02:56 GMT

Have you tried highlighting the function and pressing the F1 key?

If you have the online help installed that should bring up the online help for the function.

ybz12003 — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:43:45 GMT

I got them now, thanks.