Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:27:04 -0500
Reply-To:     msz03@albany.edu
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From:         Mike Zdeb <msz03@ALBANY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Put to split a string into two lines ?
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hi ... one idea ... not written to the LOG but to a file

data x;
input a : $20.;
file 'z:\log.txt';
b = translate(a,'0d'x,'/');
put b;
drop b;
datalines;
one
one/two
one/two/three
one/two/three/four
;
run;


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> He isn't asking that; he's asking how to put it out to the log without
> separate variables.
>
> Ya,  I don't know of a way to do this.  PUT doesn't operate on (most?)
> functions.  You might be able to use some %sysfunc stuff to work around
> that, but it would be much messier than splitting it into variables first.
>
> -Joe
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:49 PM, SD_Data_Dude <thompsop@sanfordhealth.org>wrote:
>
>> On Jan 22, 1:28 pm, ya.hu...@AMYLIN.COM (Ya Huang) wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I have a long string, which has one or more '/' in between the letters,
>> > is there a way to use put statement and get two lines?
>> >
>> > 9    data _null_;
>> > 10   a='first line / second line';
>> > 11   put a=;
>> > 12   run;
>> >
>> > a=first line / second line
>> > NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
>> >
>> > I would like the following though:
>> >
>> > a=first line
>> > second line
>> >
>> > I can certainly break the string apart, and use put like this
>> > put st1 / st2 / st3...
>> > Just wondering if it can be done more easily like split='/' in proc
>> > report?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Ya
>>
>> Learn about the scan function.
>>
>