Replcaing quotes with spaces

[shubham1]

Hello

I have a  macro varible whose value can be like this 

%let x='a''b';

%letx='ab''bc';

%letx='a''b''c';

what I want is have spaces between words

my output should be

1st one ='a'  'b'

2nd one='ab'  'bc'

3rd one ='a'  'b'  'c'

how can i achieve this 

[PeterClemmensen]

And you still want it in a macro variable?

[shubham1]

not really 

what my aim is that I want to extract each word and then apply scan function 

for example  in this case 

%let x='a''b'

once i get the value as 'a'  'b' the i can easily apply scan function and extact 'a' and 'b' separately 

[Jagadishkatam]

you can extract from within the macro variable as well as below

%let x=%sysfunc(scan('a''b',2,''));
%put &x;

[Jagadishkatam]

Please try as below

%let x=%sysfunc(tranwrd('a''b','',' '));
%put &x;