Removing Quotations

[TT12]

How can I remove the quotes from the name of each state? 

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

The COMPRESS function is one of the basic tools to remove single characters. In a data step

state= compress(state,'"');

You may have to look closely but the compress function has one double quote, the character to remove, between single quotes.

Or consider that how you read the data in the first place might have an issue.

[TT12]

Thank you!!

[BrahmanandaRao]

data ds;
input state $ ;
datalines;
"Arizona"
"Albama"
;

run;

data d;
set ds;
 y=dequote(state); 
 run;