substring

[de]

Hello,

I'm trying to remove 'B4071234'    from subjid variable -B4071234 1234 11111111

data final
set test;
substr(strip(CONT_CD),1,8)='';

run;

I'm getting error.

Thanks

[novinosrin]

data want;
var='B4071234 1234 11111111';
want=substr(var,anyspace(var));
run;

[de]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response. 

What do you mean anyspace ?  number of character to remove ?

want=substr(var,anyspace(var));

 Thanks again.

[novinosrin]

basically that logic finds a the first blank space which is the delimiter and extracts all chars after the delimiter space, consequently ignoring the chars you mentioned above

[Astounding]

When SUBSTR appears to the left of the equal sign, the first parameter must be a variable name (not an expression such as using STRIP).  You could try something along the lines of:

CONT_CD = substr(CONT_CD, 10);