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
And you still want it in a macro variable?
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
you can extract from within the macro variable as well as below
%let x=%sysfunc(scan('a''b',2,''));
%put &x;
Please try as below
%let x=%sysfunc(tranwrd('a''b','',' '));
%put &x;
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