![A trick to combine and split strings](https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/files/2022/10/clip-art-ghost-14-702x336.jpg)
Every year, I write a special article for Halloween in which I show a SAS programming TRICK that is a real TREAT! This year, the trick is to concatenate two strings into a single string in a way that guarantees you can always recover the original strings. I learned this