Regarding compbl in text.

[sowmyavasa]

There is a text with bullets like this :

TEXT TEXT: • TEXT TEXT TEXT • TEXT TEXT TEXT. • TEXT TEXT TEXT

It has space as delimeter after the bullet. I am using compbl for the entire comment variable which is bringing out the above string as follows:

TEXT TEXT TEXT: •TEXT TEXT TEXT •TEXT TEXT TEXT. •TEXT TEXT TEXT

it is removing the space after the bullet. What should I do to retain the space?

Please suggest.

[slchen]

Try this:

data _null_;

string="TEXT TEXT TEXT: •TEXT TEXT TEXT •TEXT TEXT TEXT. •TEXT TEXT TEXT";

_string=prxchange('s/(\•)/$1 /',-1,string);

put _all_;

run;

[Tom]

Huh?  COMPBL will not remove spaces that are between "words".

[ballardw]

Is that the ONLY manipulation done on that value? Of is this single value built from other values? Might look at those other steps if so, especially if concatenating things together.