Compress

Strip off some typical special characters:

test2=compress(wordvb, '0D'x);
*** remove the carriage return;

test2=compress(test2, '0A'x);
*** remove the line feed;

test2=compress(test2, 'A0'x);
*** remove non-breaking space;

varname = compress(varname, , 'kw');
*** The modifier “k” stands for ‘KEEP’ and the modifier “w” stands for ‘WRITABLE’. Note that there is no second parameter in the above code. When compress function is used in combination of K & W modifiers, it keeps all the writable characters which means it deletes all the non writable characters.