Date:         Wed, 28 May 2008 12:11:21 -0500
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From:         "data _null_," <datanull@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: concatenation syntax // or ||
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In "regular" SAS I know of no operator // perhaps in IML.

You can use ?/ to represent | when system CHARCODE is "on".  See example.

I don't know if this helps.  If not be more specific with usage and expectation.

85   options charcode=1;
86   proc options option=charcode;
87      run;
 CHARCODE          Uses character combinations as substitute for
special characters  not on the keyboard
88   data test;
89      a = 'Hello';
90      b = 'you';
91      c = a||' '||b;
92      d = a!!' '!!b;
93      e = a?/?/' '?/?/b;
94      run;

NOTE: The data set WORK.TEST has 1 observations and 5 variables.


On 5/28/08, dc353@hotmail.com <dc353@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could someone explain the difference between using // and ||.
>