You could also use -destring-
destring ID, ignore(" ") gen(new_id)
Hope this helps,
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2005 7:30 am
Subject: Re: st: destring with embedded blanks
> >
> > Perhaps something like the following....
> >
> > gen new_id = real(subinstr(ID, " ","", . )
> >
>
> Typo error noticed (after reading David's post) above should be
>
> gen new_id = real(subinstr(ID, " ", "", .))
>
> Sorry for the error,
>
> Neil
>
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