https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Comma-and-dot/m-p/609615#M18508 <P>Are you talking about character or numeric variables?</P> <P>With numeric variables, it's just a change of the displayed values, not the raw values stored; the order can't change.</P> <P>With character variables, you would only have a problem if a minus sign was right next to the dot/comma, as comma, minus sign and dot follow in immediate succession in the ASCII table (<A href="http://www.asciitable.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.asciitable.com/</A>).</P> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:32:50 GMT Kurt_Bremser 2019-12-05T08:32:50Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Comma-and-dot/m-p/609611#M18507 <P>Hi SAS</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>How can I change dot to comma and maintain that the data series remains continuous?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Best Jørgen Wolff</P> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 07:56:58 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Comma-and-dot/m-p/609611#M18507 JørgenWolff 2019-12-05T07:56:58Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Comma-and-dot/m-p/609615#M18508 <P>Are you talking about character or numeric variables?</P> <P>With numeric variables, it's just a change of the displayed values, not the raw values stored; the order can't change.</P> <P>With character variables, you would only have a problem if a minus sign was right next to the dot/comma, as comma, minus sign and dot follow in immediate succession in the ASCII table (<A href="http://www.asciitable.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.asciitable.com/</A>).</P> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 08:32:50 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Comma-and-dot/m-p/609615#M18508 Kurt_Bremser 2019-12-05T08:32:50Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Comma-and-dot/m-p/609675#M18516 <P>Perfect - thanks.</P><P>Best Jørgen</P> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:23:05 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Comma-and-dot/m-p/609675#M18516 JørgenWolff 2019-12-05T13:23:05Z