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teja5959
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi i am trying remove spl char at a time . but it's not work proparly .

 

exp;

 


data exp;
a='i will try to removie spl char @ and another spl $';
a1=tranwrd(a,'@$' , '' );
run;

i want a1 varibel with out spl char;

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data_null__
Jade | Level 19

To REMOVE characters use COMPRESS funtion.   TRANWRD is the wrong funtion for your problem.

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data_null__
Jade | Level 19

To REMOVE characters use COMPRESS funtion.   TRANWRD is the wrong funtion for your problem.

ballardw
Super User

Or translate may be what you were thinking of.

data exp;
   a='i will try to removie spl char @ and another spl $';
   a1=translate (a,'','@$' );
run;
data_null__
Jade | Level 19

@ballardw wrote:

Or translate may be what you were thinking of.

data exp;
   a='i will try to removie spl char @ and another spl $';
   a1=translate (a,'','@$' );
run;

 

Translate doesn't remove the characters you are replacing with blanks.

ballardw
Super User

Understood @data_null__ but since the OP started with one of the translate functions I was hoping to point him to the slightly more correct option.

 

And since there was not actual desired output posted ...

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