topic Re: compress(name,'!','A') ? in SAS Programming

compress(name,'!','A') ?

ybz12003 — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 22:18:17 GMT

Hello:

Could someone let me know what the '!' stand for? Thanks.

Re: compress(name,'!','A') ?

SASKiwi — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 23:14:32 GMT

This statement says remove all alphabetic characters plus exclamation marks from the variable NAME. Refer to the documentation:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lefunctionsref/69762/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0fcshr0ir3h73n1b845c4aq58hz.htm

The second parameter lists the characters to remove, the third parameter modifies the list of characters to remove. It would be stating the obvious that removing all alphabetic characters from NAME doesn't make much sense.

Re: compress(name,'!','A') ?

Reeza — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 23:21:02 GMT

RTM.

http://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmmvacdc&cdcVersion=9.4&docsetId=lefunctionsref&docsetTarget=n0fcshr0ir3h73n1b845c4aq58hz.htm&locale=en