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deleted_user
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Trying to remove single and double quotes from a character variable using Compress (and/or KCompress). In translated data from Asia, however, it appears the single and double quotes are a Unicode character, not a standard WLatin apostrophe (even though it "looks" like an apostrophe). How can I identify and strip these Chinese chars out?
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deleted_user
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I probably should clarify that we are on SAS 9.2 and support the native Unicode data just fine. However, need to "save down" to 9.0 WLatin version (for the sake of the client system), and in that transcoding, these apostrophe's cause trouble.
Patrick
Opal | Level 21
Hi
You could use $HEX. to get the hex value of the character you want to remove - and then use compress() on this hex value.

i.e:
data _null_;
var= '"';
put var $hex.;
var=compress(var,'22'x);
put var=;
run;

HTH
Patrick
sbb
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10 sbb
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
Suggest SAS NLS function documentation review / reference, possibly KUPDATE or KTRANSLATE.

Scott Barry
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Ksharp
Super User
Hi.
What do these character variable look like ?
Are you using SAS 9.2 with Chinese Version?


Ksharp

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