$QUOTEw. Informat

Removes matching quotation marks from character data.

Category: Character

Syntax

$QUOTEw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default 8 if the length of the variable is undefined. Otherwise, the default is the length of the variable.
Range 1–32767

Example

input @1 name $quote7.;
Data Line
Result
----+----1
 
'SAS'
SAS
"SAS"
SAS
"SAS's"
SAS's