I don't know how to revise the third argument that is producing the error message. It is referring to the line bolded below. Any suggestions much appreciated. if indexw(name_last,' AKA ') then do; alias=strip(strip(alias)||"/"||substr(name_last,(indexw(name_last,'AKA')+4))); if index(alias,"/")=1 then alias=compress(alias,"/"); name_last=substr(name_last,1,indexw(name_last,'AKA')-1); end; Cheers!
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