https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-Remove-spaces-in-the-Observations/m-p/48942#M13259 in one variable i have obs like this 12 098,345 78,7899 0,76567 89<BR /> <BR /> now in the out put i dont want the spaces to be seen Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:18:26 GMT R_Win 2008-09-23T07:18:26Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-Remove-spaces-in-the-Observations/m-p/48942#M13259 in one variable i have obs like this 12 098,345 78,7899 0,76567 89<BR /> <BR /> now in the out put i dont want the spaces to be seen Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:18:26 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-Remove-spaces-in-the-Observations/m-p/48942#M13259 R_Win 2008-09-23T07:18:26Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-Remove-spaces-in-the-Observations/m-p/48943#M13260 Hi: <BR /> So what you want to see in your variable value would be:<BR /> [pre]<BR /> 12098,34578,78990,7656789<BR /> or<BR /> 1209834578789907656789<BR /> [/pre]<BR /> ??? You might investigate the COMPRESS or COMPBL functions, which you could use to compress blanks from your variable or remove other characters from the string.<BR /> <BR /> What you show looks like more than one variable, however. If you have multiple variables and you want to concatenate them together into one long character string, without spaces between, you might also investigate the concatenate operator, the TRIM function or the "CAT" family of functions, CATT, CATX and CATS.<BR /> <BR /> cynthia Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:41:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/How-to-Remove-spaces-in-the-Observations/m-p/48943#M13260 Cynthia_sas 2008-09-23T08:41:48Z