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sowmyavasa
Calcite | Level 5

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.

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slchen
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

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
Super User Tom
Super User

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

ballardw
Super User

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.

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