Hi,
Is there a work around that I can use just one tranwrd function to replace all the special charaters in the string. I'm using below code to replace word by word using multiple variable.
data demo;
string='run along&the$wall#mister miller';
newstring1=tranwrd(string,'#',' ');
newstring2=tranwrd(newstring1,'&',' ');
newstring3=tranwrd(newstring2,'$',' ');
run;
Thanks.
Try TRANSLATE instead.
Try TRANSLATE instead.
Combine the translate function with the compress function. Use the modifiers for the compress function to tell it which characters you DON'T want to turn into spaces.
data test;
string='run along&the$wall#mister miller';
new_string=translate(string,' ',compress(string,,'ad'));
put string $char100. / new_string $char100. ;
run;
run along&the$wall#mister miller run along the wall mister miller
you can use prxchange too
data demo;
string='run along&the$wall#mister miller';
string1= prxchange('s/&|\$|#/ /', -1, string);
run;
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