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Pavan4
Calcite | Level 5

I need  help for the  below 

 

data new ;

x ='http://google.com';

run ;

 

I would need the below output for x value

 

 X =   <A href=" http://google.com'  " target="_blank">Click Here</A>.

 

can any body help me on this 

 

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ballardw
Super User

@Pavan4 wrote:

I need  help for the  below 

 

data new ;

x ='http://google.com';

run ;

 

I would need the below output for x value

 

 X =   <A href=" http://google.com'  " target="_blank">Click Here</A>.

 

can any body help me on this 

 


First thing is before assigning any value to the variable x is to define length long enough to hold the longest expected line. Otherwise the initial assignment sets the length of the variable to 17 characters and anything inserted before that would loose characters at the end.

 

One way:

data new ;
   length x $ 200;
   x ='http://google.com';
   x = catt('<A href="',x,' "target="_blank">Click Here</A>');
   put x;
run ;

this assumes that the single ' you showed at the end of google.com was accidentally included in a copy and paste. If that is not the case show only the text of the desired result not something that looks like an assignment statement that won't work.

 

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