topic Re: Substitute Characters in a Defined String in SAS Programming

Substitute Characters in a Defined String

apolitical — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:05:31 GMT

Let's say I define

%let person=John James Doe

How do I substitue the spaces with underscores, so I get the following effect, without typing the person's name?

%let person=John_James_Doe;

Thanks.

WarrenKuhfeld — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:09:42 GMT

%let person=John James Doe;
%let person = %sysfunc(tranwrd(&person,%str( ), _));
%put &person;

SuryaKiran — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 20:47:14 GMT

Hi,

If your trying to substitute the values in the data step when calling the macro something like this works.

%let person=John James Doe;
DATA test;
person=TRANWRD("&person"," ","_");
RUN;

apolitical — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:09:17 GMT

works like a charm. thank you!

apolitical — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:10:40 GMT

yeah i tried that and also transtrn and translate functions, turns out what i need is a %sysfunc in the front. thank you.