The values of a column, no special characters are allowed and use an underscore to mark spaces?
Is this what you are looking for ?
x2=compress(tranlate(x1,'_',' '), '~!@#$%^&*()+|}{[]\<>?');
x1=your original column
x2=new output
note : you could change the list of special characters you want to remove.
Sometimes it is difficult to exhaust or even define special characters, that is where 'k' modifier coming in handy:
x2=compress(translate(x1,'_',' '),'_','kda');
Haikuo
What legal characters do you want ?
data x; x="x2=compress(tranlate(x1,'_sdsd',' '), '~!@#$%^*()+|}{[]\<>?');"; xx=prxchange('s/\W//o',-1,translate(compbl(x),'_',' ')); run;
Ksharp
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