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SASdevAnneMarie
Barite | Level 11

Hello Experts,

 

I would like to replace the "â" by "a" and the "ô " by "o" in the column My_data.

Could I use TRANWRD function with multiple arguments like My_data2=TRANWRD(My_data,"â",a,"ô",o)  ?

There is some function that runs with multiple arguments please  and replace the character?

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Tom
Super User Tom
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Check you ENCODING setting.  You can check the automatic macro variable SYSENCODING.

 

If you are using a single byte encoding like WLATIN1 then solution like in this question using TRANSLATE() will work.

Otherwise if you are using a multi-byte encoding like UTF-8 then you will need to use the KTRANSLATE() function instead.

 

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

I think the TRANSLATE function does what you want.

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Paige Miller
Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Check you ENCODING setting.  You can check the automatic macro variable SYSENCODING.

 

If you are using a single byte encoding like WLATIN1 then solution like in this question using TRANSLATE() will work.

Otherwise if you are using a multi-byte encoding like UTF-8 then you will need to use the KTRANSLATE() function instead.

 

SASdevAnneMarie
Barite | Level 11
Thank you, Tom !
That works !
Ksharp
Super User
Also check function BASECHAR()

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