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Rick Aster: Professional SAS Programming Shortcuts: Contents

Chapter 24
Program
Shortening a title (two different ways)

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* removing characters from the end *;

TITLE = LEFT(TEXT);
IF LENGTH(LEFT(TEXT)) > VLENGTH(TITLE) THEN
    SUBSTR(TITLE, VLENGTH(TITLE) - 2) = '...';

* removing characters from the middle *;

TITLE = LEFT(TEXT);
IF LENGTH(LEFT(TEXT)) > VLENGTH(TITLE) THEN DO;
   SUBSTR(TITLE, FLOOR(VLENGTH(TITLE)/2), 3) = '...';
   SUBSTR(TITLE, FLOOR(VLENGTH(TITLE)/2) + 3) =
       SUBSTR(TEXT, LENGTH(TEXT) - CEIL(VLENGTH(TITLE)/2) - 3));
   END;