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Special Characters

Posted 10-17-2008 03:48 AM (748 views)
Hi,

I have a flat file that I would be importing thru E.G. Problem is the file has a lot of special characters. Is there a function in SAS to convert the special characters to say spaces?

Thanks
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LinusH
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Re: Special Characters

Posted 10-17-2008 04:44 AM (737 views)  |   In reply to deleted_user
Take a look at the translate function.

/Linus
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