I've a variable called name and from this I need to remove dot(.). Although I tried with compress function, it went vain.
DONALD M. VARN
to
DONALD M VARN
You obviously did not really read the documentation of the compress() function. (Do that. NOW!)
data _null_;
x = 'DONALD M. VARN';
x1 = compress(x,'.');
put x1=;
run;
You obviously did not really read the documentation of the compress() function. (Do that. NOW!)
data _null_;
x = 'DONALD M. VARN';
x1 = compress(x,'.');
put x1=;
run;
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