Replace em dashes with en dashes

[Reeza]

What's a quick way to replace em dashes with en dashes in a text string?

data have;

informat text_string $30.;

format text_string $30.;

input text_string $;

cards;

This—is_my_string_em_dash

This-has_a_normal_dash

This-is_another_em—dash

Another_normal_-_dash

;

run;

[data_null__]

TRANSLATE function.

[Reeza]

Ok...it shows as EM Dash in text but I guess its actually something else, because that works in example above, but not real data.

Hex4 of  9620

[data_null__ · Accepted solution]

in the code you posted emdash is '97'x

translate(text_string,'-','97'x)