SAS 9.4 Functions and CALL Routines, 3rd Edition

Example 3: Compressing Space Characters

The following SAS statements produce this result:

SAS Statement Result

----+----1

x='1 2 3 4 5';

y=compress(x, , 's');

put y;

12345

Example 4: Keeping Characters in the List

The following SAS statements produce this result:

SAS Statement Result

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x='Math A English B Physics A';

y=compress(x, 'ABCD', 'k');

put y;

ABA

Example 5: Compressing a String and Returning a Length of 0

The following SAS statements produce this result:

SAS Statement Result

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x=' ';

l=lengthn(compress(x));

put l;

0

See Also

Functions:

• “COMPBL Function” on page 326

• “LEFT Function” on page 642

• “TRIM Function” on page 966

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