Date:         Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:21:30 -0600
Reply-To:     Fanchon Finucane <fanchon.finucane@ABACUS-DIRECT.COM>
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From:         Fanchon Finucane <fanchon.finucane@ABACUS-DIRECT.COM>
Subject:      Q. about translation of string chars
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Hello SAS-L,

Is there slick way in SAS to translate a character in a string to 2+
characters?  For example, to translate the character 'A' into 'G4F' in a
character variable?

The TRANSLATE function appears to only do a 1-to-1 character translation.
Right now, we are using a do loop to loop through each char of the text
string and when it comes across the desired character, replace it with its
2+ char replacement.  Is there anything out there that's more efficient?

Thanks for your help!