Language Reference
Character Manipulation Functions
- BLANKSTR function
returns a blank string of a specified length.
- BYTE function
translates numbers to ordinal characters
- CHANGE call
replaces text
- CHAR function
produces a character representation of a matrix
- CONCAT function
concatenates elementwise strings
- CSHAPE function
reshapes and repeats character values
- LENGTH function
finds the lengths of character matrix elements
- NAME function
lists the names of arguments
- NUM function
produces a numeric representation of a character matrix
- ROWCAT function
concatenates rows without using blank compression
- ROWCATC function
concatenates rows by using blank compression
- SUBSTR function
takes substrings of matrix elements
You can also call functions in Base SAS software such as those documented in the sections Character and Formatting Functions and Character String Matching Functions and Subroutines.
Last updated: May 07, 2026