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varshabansal
Obsidian | Level 7

Hello everyone!

 

I want to remove extra space my text. how to remove that 

output is like this Fsc_acount_dim            .sas  

but i want to be it as fsc_account_dim.sas

 

Thanks in advance!

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TarunKumar
Pyrite | Level 9
Use compress function
varshabansal
Obsidian | Level 7
use compress getting compress(name .sas)
PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

@varshabansal wrote:
use compress getting compress(name .sas)

I don't know what this means.

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Paige Miller
Kurt_Bremser
Super User

You cannot use a data step function like that in macro statements. You have to wrap data step functions into a %SYSFUNC call.

But a simple %LET will automatically strip leading and trailing blanks, so this will do:

%let nam=&name.;

if (and that can be a big IF) you really have blanks (hex 20). Other "whitespace" characters are not filtered.

 

In the future, use the proper forum windows (</> and "little running man") to copy/paste the log or program text into. Pictures make it hard for us to use code for testing, or to point out mistakes or places for improvement.

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