meaning of second argument in compress function

[thanikondharish]

data have ;

name='sdkfksf%%&545453435' ;

new1=comperss(name,  ,'kp') ;

run;

if we run above program new1 variable have only punctuals .

what is the meaning of second argument in compress function?

[RW9]

Did you check the manual?

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000212246.htm

There is a whole section on Modifiers.

[Reeza]

The second argument is the character list which specifies the characters you want to have removed. If you only wanted hyphens removed it would be a hyphen in quotes. 

I would suggest bookmarking this page:

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&docsetId=pgmsashome&docsetTarget=h...

Then click on Functions, find the function of interest and you can see all the details for that particular function, such as RAND() or COMPRESS.

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@thanikondharish wrote:

data have ;

name='sdkfksf%%&545453435' ;

new1=comperss(name,  ,'kp') ;

run;

if we run above program new1 variable have only punctuals .

what is the meaning of second argument in compress function?

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