| Date: | Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:33:02 -0800 |
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| Reply-To: | kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | kmself@IX.NETCOM.COM |
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| Subject: | Re: remove extra space in character string |
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| In-Reply-To: | <2868C7D82610D311A3930008C7CF288B0465133A@red-exch.amgen.com>;
from mxu@AMGEN.COM on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:54:19AM -0800 |
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on Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:54:19AM -0800, Xu, Meifen (mxu@AMGEN.COM) wrote:
> Hello, there:
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> I have a character variable with most character string looking very regular.
> But there are a few strings among the words having more than one space. I
> certainly want to eliminate these extra space and tried translate(var, ' ',
> ' '). It turned to me it does not work out. I don't think compress can
> function at this case because between words one space needed for sure.
>
> Here is the string that I want to deal with:
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> My leg was injured. this is original one.
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> I like it looking like:
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> My leg was injured.
s/ *// /g
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