Substitute text in a macro variable in SAS
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No quotes in a %sysfunc, unless you mean the quote character. (Translate would have hidden the issue, at least, but TRANWRD was looking at &pow and trying to find "." and failing.)
%let pow=0.1;
%let x = %sysfunc(tranwrd(&pow,.,_));
%put x=&x;
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itzy almost 2 years
I want to change any instances of a period in a macro variable to underscore. What am I doing wrong?
%let pow=0.1; %let x = %sysfunc(tranwrd(&pow,".","_")); %put x=&x;
Output:
x=0.1
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B--rian over 3 yearsThis post saved my day, in particular the note about the quote character and the
%sysfunc
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