SAS function to strip apostrophes from a character string (compress?)
I have a string which looks like this:

     "ABAR_VAL", "ACQ_EXPTAX_Y",  "ACQ_EXP_TAX", "ADJ_MATHRES2"

and I'd like it to look like this:

    ABAR_VAL ACQ_EXPTAX_Y ACQ_EXP_TAX ADJ_MATHRES2

ie no apostrophes or commas and single space seperated.

What is the cleanest / shortest way to do so in SAS 9.1.3 ?

preferably something along the lines of:

    call symput ('MyMacroVariable',compress(_infile_,????,????))


SAS function to strip apostrophes from a character string (compress?)
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I have a string which looks like this:

     "ABAR_VAL", "ACQ_EXPTAX_Y",  "ACQ_EXP_TAX", "ADJ_MATHRES2"

and I'd like it to look like this:

    ABAR_VAL ACQ_EXPTAX_Y ACQ_EXP_TAX ADJ_MATHRES2

ie no apostrophes or commas and single space seperated.

What is the cleanest / shortest way to do so in SAS 9.1.3 ?

preferably something along the lines of:

    call symput ('MyMacroVariable',compress(_infile_,????,????))

