title: Strip apostrophes from a character string (compress?)
body: <p>I have a string which looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code> "ABAR_VAL", "ACQ_EXPTAX_Y",  "ACQ_EXP_TAX", "ADJ_MATHRES2"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I'd like it to look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ABAR_VAL ACQ_EXPTAX_Y ACQ_EXP_TAX ADJ_MATHRES2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I.e. no apostrophes or commas and single space separated.</p>
  
  <p>What is the cleanest / shortest way to do so in SAS 9.1.3? </p>
  
  <p>Preferably something along the lines of:</p>
  
  <pre><code>call symput ('MyMacroVariable',compress(????,????,????))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Just to be clear, the result needs to be single space separated, devoid of punctuation, and contained in a macro variable.</p>