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knveraraju91
Barite | Level 11

Dear,

 

I have variable(value) whose values contain 'NCS' . I need to remove the string. Please help.

 

Thanks 

 

             value
"sentence of words NCS"

"sentence of words (NCS)"
"NCS , sentence of words"
"NCS sentence of words"
"NCS; sentence of words"

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Reeza
Super User

Look at TRANWRD function 

KachiM
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

You may try COMPRESS function too.

 

new_Value = compress(Value, 'NCS',' ');

 

You have comma, semicolon, '(' and ')'.

 

These also can be compressed into blanks or none.

Ksharp
Super User
You didn't post then output yet.



data have;
input value $quote40.;
cards4;
"sentence of words NCS"
"sentence of words (NCS)"
"NCS , sentence of words"
"NCS sentence of words"
"NCS; sentence of words"
;;;;
run;
data want;
 set have;
 new_value=prxchange('s/\bNCS\b//i',-1,value);
run;

knveraraju91
Barite | Level 11

Hi 

Thanks for the help. It worked, but removed only 'NCS' characters only.

 

output;

 

"sentence of words "
"sentence of words ()"
" , sentence of words"
" sentence of words"
"; sentence of words"
Ksharp
Super User
Then what output do you expect ?

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