Possible to remove carriage returns from a string and leave the rest of the value?

[Walternate]

Hi,

I have some files which I read in from Excel. 

There are some long strings which have carriage returns in the middle. I need to remove the CR but leave the rest of the value intact. Is this possible?

Thanks!

[Kurt_Bremser]

Use the COMPRESS function to remove "0d"x.

[Walternate]

I tried the following:

directory3 = compress(directory2, '0d'x);

I did not get an error message but the carriage returns are still there. Did I miss some punctuation or a modifier or something?

[ErikLund_Jensen]

hi @Walternate 

You could try removing '0A'x (the line feed char) also. Might solve your problem.

[Reeza]

Use a HEX format on your character string to see the character in the string.

proc print data=have;
var stringVar;
format stringVar $hex50.; *make sure there's an appropriate length;
run;

[ballardw]

I strongly suspect that you want to replace the character with a space. Removing the line feed means the resulting text will be poor for reading.

Example:

This is an Excel value
split to two or more
lines.

When you remove the line feeds you will get

This is an Excel valuesplit to two or morelines.

The TRANSLATE function will replace a character with another.

[Walternate]

Is there any way to change my output program which built the Excel files so that it is only outputting text values and no weird characters? 

To output I am just using ods excel and proc printing a data file. 

[Tom · Accepted solution]

Use the FLOW="TABLES" option.

https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Lines-Wrapping-in-ODS-Excel/m-p/357530/highlig...