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Calcite | Level 5

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.

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

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;

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

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;
ballardw
Super User

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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