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Calcite | Level 5

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

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novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20
data want;
var='B4071234 1234 11111111';
want=substr(var,anyspace(var));
run;
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Calcite | Level 5 de
Calcite | Level 5

Hi,

 

Thanks for the quick response. 

 

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

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

 Thanks again.

novinosrin
Tourmaline | Level 20

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
PROC Star

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);

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