topic Re: Question to convert the field type in Data Management Studio 2.4 in SAS Data Management https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Question-to-convert-the-field-type-in-Data-Management-Studio-2-4/m-p/217135#M5295 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you tried&nbsp; "tostring"&nbsp; function?&nbsp;&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>string output</P><P></P><P>output = tostring(`NumberInputField`)</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:31:46 GMT yumeon 2015-04-10T18:31:46Z Question to convert the field type in Data Management Studio 2.4 https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Question-to-convert-the-field-type-in-Data-Management-Studio-2-4/m-p/217134#M5294 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I am new to DM studio and I am trying to convert the field type to Character. My input field type is Number/double and I require the output field type as character. I have tried using expression by declaring the field type as string but it did not worked out well. Is there any solution to convert the field type?</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Shaheen</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Apr 2015 06:19:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Question-to-convert-the-field-type-in-Data-Management-Studio-2-4/m-p/217134#M5294 Shah 2015-04-07T06:19:44Z Re: Question to convert the field type in Data Management Studio 2.4 https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Question-to-convert-the-field-type-in-Data-Management-Studio-2-4/m-p/217135#M5295 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Have you tried&nbsp; "tostring"&nbsp; function?&nbsp;&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>string output</P><P></P><P>output = tostring(`NumberInputField`)</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:31:46 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Question-to-convert-the-field-type-in-Data-Management-Studio-2-4/m-p/217135#M5295 yumeon 2015-04-10T18:31:46Z