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thanikondharish
Fluorite | Level 6

I know compress function and its modifiers like 'kp' 'ka' 'kd' , but couldn't find difference in below program what will happen if I run below program?

data t ;

name='jhon peter' ;

a=compress(name,,'r') ;

run;

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thanikondharish
Fluorite | Level 6

(duplicate of later post)

DanielLangley
Quartz | Level 8
I couldn't test it but it doesn't look like it will do anything.
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000212246.htm
The documentation shows the different modifiers and it doesn't look like 'r' is a modifier.
Cynthia_sas
Diamond | Level 26

Hi:

You are correct, the R is not a modifier. This is what happens:

compress_r.png

  Perhaps the OP could clarify what the desired output was going to be using 'R' in the COMPRESS Function.

 

Cynthia

kiranv_
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

nothing happens,

to compress r use in second argument.

 

find the documentation what are allowed in modifiers(third argument) and r is not of them. it generally looking for groups of letter like alphabets(a) digits(d) etc

 

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

 

data t ;

name='jhon peter' ;

a=compress(name,'r') ;

run;

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