topic Re: What is var1 =COMPRESS(var1, ''); doing? in SAS Enterprise Guide https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/What-is-var1-COMPRESS-var1-doing/m-p/86739#M8232 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As a minimum it would remove blanks from the variable which would likely only be easily noticeable if they were leading or imbedded in the variable.</P><P></P><P>Examine what happens here:</P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 8pt;">&nbsp; </SPAN></P><P>data junk;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; var1 = ' some name ';</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; var1 = compress(var1,'');</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; put var1;</P><P>run;</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:46:23 GMT ballardw 2013-09-18T19:46:23Z What is var1 =COMPRESS(var1, ''); doing? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/What-is-var1-COMPRESS-var1-doing/m-p/86738#M8231 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In reviewing inherited code I come across:</P><P>var1 =COMPRESS(var1, '');</P><P>I've looked at the Compress documentation and several examples, but not sure what the <SPAN style="text-decoration: underline;">two single quotes with nothing in them</SPAN> does?</P><P>thx</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:20:02 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/What-is-var1-COMPRESS-var1-doing/m-p/86738#M8231 80sMetalForever 2013-09-18T19:20:02Z Re: What is var1 =COMPRESS(var1, ''); doing? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/What-is-var1-COMPRESS-var1-doing/m-p/86739#M8232 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As a minimum it would remove blanks from the variable which would likely only be easily noticeable if they were leading or imbedded in the variable.</P><P></P><P>Examine what happens here:</P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 8pt;">&nbsp; </SPAN></P><P>data junk;</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; var1 = ' some name ';</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; var1 = compress(var1,'');</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; put var1;</P><P>run;</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:46:23 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/What-is-var1-COMPRESS-var1-doing/m-p/86739#M8232 ballardw 2013-09-18T19:46:23Z Re: What is var1 =COMPRESS(var1, ''); doing? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/What-is-var1-COMPRESS-var1-doing/m-p/86740#M8233 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>perfect - that's what I thought but wanted to ensure it wasn't doing ADDITIONAL formatting...gonna remove the quotes so they don't confuse the next bloke <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://communities.sas.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:56:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/What-is-var1-COMPRESS-var1-doing/m-p/86740#M8233 80sMetalForever 2013-09-18T19:56:20Z