Removing apostrophes between names

[SAS_Girl1]

Hi - 

I would like to get rid of these apostrophes from first and last names. 

Currently names appear as: 

"Martha" and I would want to and up with Martha 

Should be simple enough, 

Thank you, 

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

These are not apostrophes, those are double-quotes. So, do you want to remove single-quotes and double-quotes from the name?

If so, try this:

new_name=compress(name,'"');

to get rid of the double-quotes and if you also want to get rid of single-quotes, use one more command

new_name=compress(new_name,"'");

[SAS_Girl1]

Thank you so much for the prompt reply! 

I will test your suggestions. 

Best,