What's a quick way to replace em dashes with en dashes in a text string?
data have;
informat text_string $30.;
format text_string $30.;
input text_string $;
cards;
This—is_my_string_em_dash
This-has_a_normal_dash
This-is_another_em—dash
Another_normal_-_dash
;
run;
in the code you posted emdash is '97'x
TRANSLATE function.
Ok...it shows as EM Dash in text but I guess its actually something else, because that works in example above, but not real data.
Hex4 of 9620
in the code you posted emdash is '97'x
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