topic Re: how to remove row split key from a data in SAS Procedures

how to remove row split key from a data

GeorgeSAS — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:27:57 GMT

Hello everyone,

After I read an excel file into SAS,I found the variable were splited in to several rows, maybe there are something like ENTER keys in the excel file.

My question is how to remove these 'split' in sas data set and make the variable in one row? I want to do this because I can't use 'findw' function correctly to find a special character in it. the variable X looks like this:

X=des2MKDWhaghv,Machinachinable
DSZCF3DigitRuralMachinableWs,
DSCWF73
DiitNoralMJchinableSghtTY

I need x like this:

X=des2MKDWhaghv,MachinachinableDSZCF3DigitRuralMachinableWs,DSCWF73DiitNoralMJchinableSghtTY

I have tried use compress(x) but still not work.

Thanks

Re: how to remove row split key from a data

SASKiwi — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 01:44:27 GMT

Try COMPRESS with the S modifier. It removes print control characters as well:

compress(x, ,'S');

Re: how to remove row split key from a data

Ksharp — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 01:34:47 GMT

new=compress(x,'0D0A'x);

Re: how to remove row split key from a data

RW9 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:20:28 GMT

Pleas show exactly how your data is, do all those lines appear in one observation in SAS (post a sample of the excel file maybe)? I assume that this is on import, but when I did this, simple proc import on an Excel file, it put the whole record on one observation and removed alt+enters. So I don't see why you have this issue. Please explain your process further.