topic Re: Error in PUT function in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Error-in-PUT-function/m-p/483329#M125330 <P>And what information are you missing?</P> <P>This is the error:</P> <P><SPAN>ERROR: Character format $ in PUT function requires a character argument.</SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>This is one of the places it refers to:</P> <PRE class=" language-sas"><CODE class=" language-sas"><SPAN class="token keyword">put</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">(</SPAN><SPAN class="token number">20180630</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">,</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">$</SPAN><SPAN class="token number">10</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">)</SPAN></CODE></PRE> <P>20180630&nbsp;is a number, therefore you need to put() it into a numeric format:</P> <PRE class=" language-sas"><CODE class=" language-sas"><SPAN class="token keyword">put</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">(</SPAN><SPAN class="token number">20180630</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">,</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">8</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">)</SPAN> as KNDTOPD <SPAN class="token function">length</SPAN> <SPAN class="token operator">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="token number">10</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">,</SPAN></CODE></PRE> Thu, 02 Aug 2018 09:56:30 GMT RW9 2018-08-02T09:56:30Z Error in PUT function https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Error-in-PUT-function/m-p/483327#M125328 Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:26:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Error-in-PUT-function/m-p/483327#M125328 Babloo 2018-08-02T10:26:52Z Re: Error in PUT function https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Error-in-PUT-function/m-p/483329#M125330 <P>And what information are you missing?</P> <P>This is the error:</P> <P><SPAN>ERROR: Character format $ in PUT function requires a character argument.</SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>This is one of the places it refers to:</P> <PRE class=" language-sas"><CODE class=" language-sas"><SPAN class="token keyword">put</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">(</SPAN><SPAN class="token number">20180630</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">,</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">$</SPAN><SPAN class="token number">10</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">)</SPAN></CODE></PRE> <P>20180630&nbsp;is a number, therefore you need to put() it into a numeric format:</P> <PRE class=" language-sas"><CODE class=" language-sas"><SPAN class="token keyword">put</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">(</SPAN><SPAN class="token number">20180630</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">,</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">8</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">)</SPAN> as KNDTOPD <SPAN class="token function">length</SPAN> <SPAN class="token operator">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="token number">10</SPAN><SPAN class="token punctuation">,</SPAN></CODE></PRE> Thu, 02 Aug 2018 09:56:30 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Error-in-PUT-function/m-p/483329#M125330 RW9 2018-08-02T09:56:30Z