removing ')' form macro variable

[abhinayingole]

Hi there

%LET x = )AL);

please help me with removing / compressing closing brackets from above code.

[PaigeMiller]

%let y=%sysfunc(compress(%superq(x),%str(%))));
%put &=y;

[Astounding]

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);