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Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:58:59 -0800
Reply-To:   Dale McLerran <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM>
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From:   Dale McLerran <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:   Re: _compress
Comments:   To: "Suzanne_D._McCoy" <smccoy@LUCIDAN.COM>
In-Reply-To:   <1558.24.197.110.80.1038425732.squirrel@www.lucidan.com>
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Whoops, I specified the tab character as "08"x. Kevin is correct that it is "09"x. So, the following code is correct for compressing the tab character.

data test; A = "09"x || "a"; put A=; A_new = compress(A, "09"x); put A_new=; run;

===== --------------------------------------- Dale McLerran Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center mailto: dmclerra@fhcrc.org Ph: (206) 667-2926 Fax: (206) 667-5977 ---------------------------------------

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