topic Re: Address Concatenation in SAS Programming

Address Concatenation

UPRETIGOPI — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:30:47 GMT

Hi there

I have separate adrress fields like Address, City, State and Zipcode but I would like to create a single address fields by combining all these four fields into one field like : 1345 Quail Creek Ln, Alexandria, VA 22039

Address City State Zipcode

1345 Quail Creek Ln Alexandria VA 22039

4569 Foxhole Drive Chantilly VA 22033

Single address field I want to create is: 1345 Quail Creek Ln, Alexandria, VA 22039

4569 Foxhole Drive, Chantilly, VA 22033

I tried using CATX function like this

New_address = catx(',',Address,City,State,Zipcode); but it resolves into: 1345 Quail Creek LN,Alexandria,VA,22039

How do I insert space between two elements of the address separated by comma and just the space between state and ziocode as I have shown above ? Please help me. Thanks

Re: Address Concatenation

Reeza — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:36:55 GMT

Put a space in the first parameter.

this_works = catx(", ", "first", "second");
put this_works;

Re: Address Concatenation

ballardw — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:41:06 GMT

Try:

New_address = catx(',',Address,City,catx(' ',State,Zipcode));

so the State and Zipcode are combined first with a space and thus treated as a single string by the outer CATX. For a somewhat older appearance you could use multiple spaces such as

catx(' ',State,Zipcode)

to have the zipcode a bit further from the state

Re: Address Concatenation

UPRETIGOPI — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:52:44 GMT

Thank you Ballardw. That wroks.