Hi friends; I am asking for help from a someone out there! I am new to SAS. I would like to delete multiple substrings from a string variable. I am using the tranwrd statement.I am not sure why the code is not eliminating substrings specified. Anyone willing to scanm through my code? Thanks DATA art2; SET art2; do list="hxu","Hydroxyure","ntiretroviralTreatmentotSpecified","Antiretroviral", "and","Antiretroviral Treatment Not cified","iretroviral Treatment Not Specified", "Ant troviral Treatment Not Specified"; abbrev_codes2=tranwrd(abbrev_codes, list,""); end; The data i have and the one i want is given below; iretroviral Treatment Not Specified, L667 apv, ddi, d4t, abc, hxu iretroviral Treatment Not Specified, lov apv, ddi, d4t, abc, hxu,Hydroxyure apv, ddi, d4t, abc, iretroviral Treatment Not Specified Data I want L667 apv, ddi, d4t, abc lov apv, ddi, d4t, abc apv, ddi, d4t, abc thanks for your helpl; Dathan Byonanebye
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