Date:         Fri, 23 May 2003 12:39:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Jeff Morison <jmt_mtf@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Jeff Morison <jmt_mtf@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Repeating consonants and vowels
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 I need to drop repeating consonants(except the first
occurance) and all Vowels(if it is not the first
letter of the name) in the first_name variable I have
in a SAS dataset for a project which involves
standardizing names.

How can I do this in SAS.

For example;

first_name    resulting_var
Briggs           Brgs
Jeffery          Jfry
Williams         Wlms
Atkinson         Atknsn
Abraham          Abrhm
Briggs           Brgs


TIA,
Jeff



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