SAS(R) 9.1.3 Companion for z/OS

Functions and CALL Routines under z/OS TRANSLATE Function 275
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See Also
TRANSLATE Function
3 Statements: “TSO Statement” on page 403 and “X Statement” on page 405
3 CALL routines: “CALL SYSTEM Routine” on page 248 and “CALL TSO Routine”
on page 249
3 Commands: “TSO Command” on page 565 and “X Command” on page 567
3 “Macro Statements” on page 289
Replaces specific characters in a character expression
Category: Character
z/OS specifics: to/from pairs
See: TRANSLATE Function in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
Syntax
TRANSLATE(source, to-1, from-1, )
Arguments
source
specifies the SAS expression that contains the original character value.
to
specifies the characters that you want TRANSLATE to use as substitutes.
from
specifies the characters that you want TRANSLATE to replace.
Details
Under z/OS, you must specify pairs of to and from arguments. Also, there is no
practical limit to the number of to/from pairs you can specifiy.
TRANSLATE handles character replacement for single-byte character sets only. See
KTRANLSATE to replace single-byte characters with double-byte characters, or vice
versa.
See Also
3 “KTRANSLATE Function” on page 268