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Rick Aster: Professional SAS Programming Shortcuts: Contents

Chapter 12
Program
Transforming all character variables

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data _null_;
   * Examples of character variables;
   retain name 'A, B, and C' description 'Three letters';
   
   * Array of all character variables;
   array allchar{*} _character_;
   
   * Remove all commas.;
   do i = 1 to dim(allchar);
      allchar{i} = compress(allchar{i}, ',');
      end;
      
   * Change all ASCII tab characters to spaces.;
   do i = 1 to dim(allchar);
      allchar{i} = translate(allchar{i}, ' ', '09'x);
      end;
run;