topic Re: Tabs in Compress function in SAS Procedures

Tabs in Compress function

BenHere — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:45:41 GMT

Does anyone know how to remove a tab from a string using the COMPRESS function, even when editor options are set to replace tabs with spaces?

Ex. test = compress(string,"-,/ "); --where the space is an actual tab and not spaces

I tried turning off the option to use spaces in place of a tab but it still didn't work.

Amir — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:24:25 GMT

Hi,

According to the documentation for SAS 9.2, using "h" or "H" as the third argument will do the trick.

Regards,

Amir.

BenHere — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:37:24 GMT

Thank you Amir!!! I should have looked a little harder.

Tom — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:30:41 GMT

If you want to compress out a specific character you can use a hexadecimal string literal.

test = compress(string,'09'X) ;