The %TMPUNC macro removes unwanted punctuation from terms
in your document collection. If your documents contain terms with
run-on punctuation, such as
**people or
+bags, these punctuation characters become part of the
terms when you parse documents in SAS Text Miner. The %TMPUNC macro
enables you to convert terms with run-on punctuation by putting spaces
before and after the punctuation characters to prevent them from appearing
as part of the term. Without the %TMPUNC macro, these two examples
would parse out as two terms,
**people and
+bags. After running the %TMPUNC macro, they would parse
as five terms:
See
Using the %TEXTSYN and %TMPUNC Macros in the Text Miner
node documentation in SAS Text Miner for more information.