I need to assign the below text to a variable X in sas data step.
<br>Learn more at <a href= https://www.test.com/preferred-rewards target="_blank"style="text-decoration: underline"> www.test.com/preferred-rewards </a><br>
data test;
x=
<br>Learn more at <a href= https://www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards target="_blank"style="text-decoration: underline"> www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards </a><br>
run;
As the above text has several escape quotes etc., I decided that I need help. Any help is appreciated.
Just put single quotes around the text, escapes do not matter in this instance:
data test; x= '<br>Learn more at <a href= https://www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards target="_blank"style="text-decoration: underline"> www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards </a><br>'; run;
Just put single quotes around the text, escapes do not matter in this instance:
data test; x= '<br>Learn more at <a href= https://www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards target="_blank"style="text-decoration: underline"> www.bankofamerica.com/preferred-rewards </a><br>'; run;
If your data is going to have more than one record you do want to make sure that you declare a length long enough to hold the longest value X can take. If this is the first time you use X it has basically aquired the length of that statment. If you attempt reuse X later to hold another string that is longer it will be truncated.
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