COMPRESS

COMPRESS

Removes specific characters from a character string

Category: Character

Syntax
Arguments
Examples
	Example 1: Compressing Blanks
	Example 2: Compressing Special Characters
See Also

Syntax

COMPRESS(source<, characters-to-remove>)

source

specifies a source string that contains the characters to remove.

characters-to-remove

specifies the character or characters that SAS removes from the character string.

Tip:	Enclose a literal string of characters in quotation marks.
Tip:	If you specify nothing, SAS removes blanks from *source*.

SAS Statements Results

----+----1

a='AB C D '; b=compress(a); put b;

ABCD

SAS Statements	Results
	----+----1
a='AB C D '; b=compress(a); put b;	ABCD

SAS Statements Results

----+----1

x='A.B (C=D);'; y=compress(x,'.;()'); put y;

AB C=D

See Also

SAS Statements	Results
	----+----1
x='A.B (C=D);'; y=compress(x,'.;()'); put y;	AB C=D

Functions:

COMPBL

LEFT

TRIM