topic Specifying A Series of Character Codes - Need help in SAS Data Science https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Specifying-A-Series-of-Character-Codes-Need-help/m-p/94290#M708 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In SAS, there is the ability to speficiy that if a variable is within a range of numbers, that you can recode them i.e. if variable in (1 2 3 4 5) then new_variable = 1;</P><P></P><P>I am wondering if the same can be done with a character variable. I am analyzing data with ICD9 codes and not all the codes are numeric. I am specifically wanting to have a series of ICD9 codes from V277 to V277.2. </P><P>Is there a way in SAS to write that I want to identify records that contain an ICD9 code between V277 and V277.2</P><P></P><P>thank you for any help you can provide. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:01:03 GMT HyunJee 2012-06-27T21:01:03Z Specifying A Series of Character Codes - Need help https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Specifying-A-Series-of-Character-Codes-Need-help/m-p/94290#M708 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In SAS, there is the ability to speficiy that if a variable is within a range of numbers, that you can recode them i.e. if variable in (1 2 3 4 5) then new_variable = 1;</P><P></P><P>I am wondering if the same can be done with a character variable. I am analyzing data with ICD9 codes and not all the codes are numeric. I am specifically wanting to have a series of ICD9 codes from V277 to V277.2. </P><P>Is there a way in SAS to write that I want to identify records that contain an ICD9 code between V277 and V277.2</P><P></P><P>thank you for any help you can provide. </P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:01:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Specifying-A-Series-of-Character-Codes-Need-help/m-p/94290#M708 HyunJee 2012-06-27T21:01:03Z Re: Specifying A Series of Character Codes - Need help https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Specifying-A-Series-of-Character-Codes-Need-help/m-p/94291#M709 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> if "V277" le yourcodevariable le "V277.2"&nbsp; MAY work. It may not if there are codes such as V277.12 that you do not want.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:32:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Specifying-A-Series-of-Character-Codes-Need-help/m-p/94291#M709 ballardw 2012-06-27T21:32:31Z