Hi there
%LET x = )AL);
please help me with removing / compressing closing brackets from above code.
%let y=%sysfunc(compress(%superq(x),%str(%))));
%put &=y;
My choice is to avoid quoting functions when possible. As long as your string does not contain any double quotes, you can use:
%let x = %scan("&x", 1, ")" );
Technically, this does not remove the ). Rather, it selects the first word from the original string (in quotes), using both double quotes and ) as delimiters. So it would not work for:
%let x = A)B);
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