Tag: compress

Putting the squeeze on your SAS data sets

I’ve known several people who were raised during the Great Depression, and I’ve observed that they are very mindful of waste. My wife’s grandmother used to save plastic bags, twist ties, and relatively clean alumninum foil for potential reuse in …

COMPRESS: SAS Function strips characters from the string

In SAS 9.1.3 , an extra argument (MODIFIER) is added to the SAS character string function COMPRESS and these modifiers modifies the action of the COMPRESS function;

Syntax: COMPRESS(<, chars><, modifiers>) ;

Following characters can …