topic Re: Excel text function and SAS put function in SAS Programming

Excel text function and SAS put function

tesu — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:46:27 GMT

Dear all,

I have a SAS data set(mydata.sas7bdat). It looks like the following:

Field1

3872

349

1111

If I use text function in Excel, I can convert the numbers to character values using =text(A2, "0000").

Field2

0024

3872

0349

1111

How can I do that in SAS?

Re: Excel text function and SAS put function

Peter_C — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:51:12 GMT

ODS tagsets.excelxp

provides a way to do this

It allows you to define the custom format for excel to apply the format

It also allows you to apply an excel formula

There are many examples in the ODS forum

Re: Excel text function and SAS put function

Haikuo — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:55:49 GMT

Not sure if this is what you want:

data have;

input Field1;

cards;

3872

349

1111

;

data want (keep=_c rename=_c=Field1);

set have;

_c=put(field1,z4.);

run;

proc print;run;

Regards,

Haikuo

Re: Excel text function and SAS put function

Linlin — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:38:19 GMT

data have;

input Field1;

cards;

3872

349

1111

;

proc sql;

select put(field1,z4.) as field1

from have;

quit;

Re: Excel text function and SAS put function

tesu — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:49:55 GMT

Thank you, Haikuo. It works!

Re: Excel text function and SAS put function

kuridisanjeev — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:39:49 GMT

data have;

input Field1;

cards;

3872

349

1111

;

run;

data have1;

set have;

if length(field1)=1 then "000"||field1;

else;

if length(field1)=2 then "00"||field1;

else;

if length(field1)=3 then "0"||field1;

else field1=field1;

run;

Regards

Sanjeev K

Re: Excel text function and SAS put function

Peter_C — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:05:17 GMT

SAnjeev

YOu have to learn about the Z. format. The example a few postings earlier in this thread show how much it improves on your solution.