Hi,

I think this may be one of the way.

data one;

input text $75.;

cards;

,,I am Frank,,,,how are you,

,,,today is Thursday,,nice day

,,,,,

,did you do that,,,not yet,,,

;

run;

data two;

set one;

text=tranwrd(text,',,,,',',');

text=tranwrd(text,',,,',',');

text=tranwrd(text,',,',',');

if substr(text,1,1)=',' then

text=substr(text,2,length(text));

if substr(text,length(text),1)=',' then

text=substr(text,1,length(text)-1);

run;

Urvir

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