Just on the off-chance that you work for an Indian software-house then if that is the case then I hope your Management have checked out my web site http://mysite.freeserve.com/rolandrb/sasmacros/index.html

It's all free. It's all public domain software. If you need to write complex SAS macros then there are many examples there that would be useful as a guide. Your company would be able to build a complete Clinical Reporting system based on what is webbed there.

I won't wish you Happy Christmas since it is probably nothing to do with your religion but I wish you well in any case at this time of the year.

Live Long and Prosper !V!

Roland

"Vaishali Joshi" <VJOSHI73@YAHOO.COM> wrote in message news:200212201710.gBKHAsp19234@listserv.cc.uga.edu... > Hello, > I am in the process of doing a key word search against variable called > WORDS. My sas dataset is extracted form an oracle tables using the > dbmax=32767 option. > How do I get read of any unprintable characters such as line feeds, enter > etc...from my text? > Any help will be appreciated. > Thank you, > Vaishali