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Rick Aster: Professional SAS Programming Shortcuts: Contents

Chapter 24
Program
Shortening a title (two different ways)

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* removing characters from the end *;

title = left(text);
if length(left(text)) > vlength(title) then
    substr(title, vlength(title) - 2) = '...';

* removing characters from the middle *;

title = left(text);
if length(left(text)) > vlength(title) then do;
   substr(title, floor(vlength(title)/2), 3) = '...';
   substr(title, floor(vlength(title)/2) + 3) =
       substr(text, length(text) - ceil(vlength(title)/2) + 3);
   end;