#form is aaa-bbb, ccc-ddd, eee, etc. = "name" abc-def, ghi, etc. = "anothername" there is no delimiter between each assignment. '
sasParseAssignments(x, stripWhiteSpace = TRUE, stripQuotes = TRUE)
is a character string containing space delimited assignments, in SAS declaration format.
will strip all whitespace from the returned values
will strip all double quotation marks from the returned values
list with each list item containing a matrix of "char ranges", "assigned value" pairs