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soumri
Quartz | Level 8

Hi everyone,
Is anyone can help me  to remove a special character from a variable regardless of its order in the variable.
here is the example:
what I have:
id                      Mesure
10/5201            0.012
10/6522            0.452
306/312            1.003
AC115/9            0.855

what I want (just delete the slash)
id                      Mesure
105201            0.012
106522            0.452
306312            1.003
AC1159            0.855

My database contains more than a million ids that contain special characters (/, -,*,.) that I just want to search for and remove them by keeping the other characters.
Thank you for your help.

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

No.  Read the documentation, all you need is:

id=compress(id, '/');

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soumri
Quartz | Level 8

As I understand I have to put this code:

 

data want;set have;

id=compress(id, '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'k');

run;

 

is this true?

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

No.  Read the documentation, all you need is:

id=compress(id, '/');

soumri
Quartz | Level 8

Yes, it works well. tank you.

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