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mounikag
Obsidian | Level 7

HI All,

 

I have data as below. I wanted to remove space before a string(/).

 

Raw data:

subjid    Term

101        Inclusion / Exclusion Criteria

 

Output DAtaset:

subjid    Term

101        Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria

 

So which function i should use to remove space before '/' string and after string '/'. please provide your inputs.TIA

 

 

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ballardw
Super User

@mounikag wrote:

HI All,

 

I have data as below. I wanted to remove space before a string(/).

 

Raw data:

subjid    Term

101        Inclusion / Exclusion Criteria

 

Output DAtaset:

subjid    Term

101        Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria

 

So which function i should use to remove space before '/' string and after string '/'. please provide your inputs.TIA

 

 


One way is to use the TRANWRD function to replace the string " / " with just a "/".

data example;
   x = "Inclusion / Exclusion Criteria";
   y = tranwrd(x,' / ','/');
   put y=;
run;

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ballardw
Super User

@mounikag wrote:

HI All,

 

I have data as below. I wanted to remove space before a string(/).

 

Raw data:

subjid    Term

101        Inclusion / Exclusion Criteria

 

Output DAtaset:

subjid    Term

101        Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria

 

So which function i should use to remove space before '/' string and after string '/'. please provide your inputs.TIA

 

 


One way is to use the TRANWRD function to replace the string " / " with just a "/".

data example;
   x = "Inclusion / Exclusion Criteria";
   y = tranwrd(x,' / ','/');
   put y=;
run;
mounikag
Obsidian | Level 7
thanks alot

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