topic concat (catx) in SAS Programming

concat (catx)

radhikaa4 — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:46:01 GMT

I have following dataset and I am trying to concat. percent formatted to 9.1 (already did that)

But when I use this one below:

combine = cats(freq, ' ', '(', percent, '%)')

There is 1) no space between freq and percent and all my percent numbers are super long , like this:

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 23:58:53 GMT

Maxim 1: Read the Documentation.

Cats() strips values before concatenating, so the blank vanishes. Use catx() instead.

And the implicit type conversion numeric to character uses a best. format, causing the long numbers.

Also use the percent. format:

catx(' ',freq,put(percent/100,percent7.1))

ChrisNZ — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 07:43:51 GMT

Or
catx(' ',freq,'('!!put(percent/100,percent7.1)!!')')