Let's say I define
%let person=John James Doe
How do I substitue the spaces with underscores, so I get the following effect, without typing the person's name?
%let person=John_James_Doe;
Thanks.
%let person=John James Doe;
%let person = %sysfunc(tranwrd(&person,%str( ), _));
%put &person;
%let person=John James Doe;
%let person = %sysfunc(tranwrd(&person,%str( ), _));
%put &person;
works like a charm. thank you!
Hi,
If your trying to substitute the values in the data step when calling the macro something like this works.
%let person=John James Doe;
DATA test;
person=TRANWRD("&person"," ","_");
RUN;
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