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gamotte
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Hi all,

I would like to know if there is a way to remove the space introduced

by the put statement in the following data step.

data _NULL_;

hel="hel";

put Hel "lo";

run;

Output :

Hel lo

     ^

Of course, I could generate the string in a previous statement, but

this is what I want to avoid since I have a lot of such put statements.

Thanks

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Quentin
Super User

One way:

8    data _NULL_;
9      hel="hel";
10     put hel +(-1) "lo";
11   run;

hello

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Pop the format in:

data temp;

hel="hel";

put hel $3. "lo";

run;

Quentin
Super User

One way:

8    data _NULL_;
9      hel="hel";
10     put hel +(-1) "lo";
11   run;

hello

gamotte
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Thanks a lot !

I thought of using the format but the string lengths can vary between observations. "+(-1)" is just what I needed.

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