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Character data in Numaric variable.

kuridisanjeev — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:17:32 GMT

Hi all..

Is it possible to enter a text in a numaric variable with out changing that variable into character variable???

Keith — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:05:43 GMT

There are 2 ways I can think of to have text showing in a numeric field.

Gerd47 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:16:32 GMT

Hi,

no, this isn't possible.

If you want to combine a numeric value with a text, you have to generate a second (character) variable.

For example:

data test;

length b $ 20;

a=1;

b=cats(a,'test');

run;

proc fsview; run;

Hope, this helps.