Hello,
I import an excel file, the data has the line breaks, so, sometimes ,in my sas data I have the multiple spaces.
I want to replace this spaces by ^n but my code doesn't work:
OBJECTIVES2=prxchange('s/(^|\b)\s{2,}(\b|$)/^n/oi',-1,OBJECTIVES);
Maybe you know some other options to do that?
Thank you for your help!
Best regards,
Marie
A space means \b is matched, so I am unsure what the intent of your expression is.
> I want to replace this spaces by ^n
Like this? It's the same as your expression.
OBJECTIVES2=prxchange('s/\s{2,}/^n/',-1,OBJECTIVES);
A space means \b is matched, so I am unsure what the intent of your expression is.
> I want to replace this spaces by ^n
Like this? It's the same as your expression.
OBJECTIVES2=prxchange('s/\s{2,}/^n/',-1,OBJECTIVES);
I would remove the line breaks from your data. That's only going to create problems "somewhere".
Below RegEx replaces one or multiple consecutive whitespace characters with a single blank.
OBJECTIVES2=OBJECTIVES; OBJECTIVES2=prxchange('s/\s+/ /oi',-1,OBJECTIVES2);
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