Trim Spaces

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I've a SAS program where it reads a SAS dataset and convert it to the XML file. However, I observed that there is an extra space is appended with few of the variables in the output XML file and I want to remove the extra spaces as highlighted in yellow below. Since the values are coming from the dataset, I think I've apply trim function to the variables 'dateRenewal' and 'clause_Base' but I'm not certain how to apply. Appreciate if someone of you guide me here.

Snippet of SAS program:

put '<dateRenewal>' dateRenewal '</dateRenewal>';
put '<clauseCode>' clause_Base '</clauseCode>';

Snippet of Output XML file:

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

A simple search:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/General-SAS-Programming/How-to-remove-trailing-blanks-when-PUT-statem...