Hi all,   I am trying to compress unwanted characters from a variable to remain with digits only. The dataset has about 1.8 million records and everytime I run the code EG crashes. I have tried restricting the OBS to say 1000 and that works fine. How can I avoid EG crashing when I run the code on the whole dataset. Code example below:   data test_003 (keep =   variable_1 variable_2 variable_3 variable_4); set work.test_oo1; variable_4_new=compress(variable_4,'','kd'); run;   So I am trying to compress variable_4 and have digits only remaining without out crashing my session.     ... View more