topic Re: numeric and charater variables concat in SAS Programming

numeric and charater variables concat

BrahmanandaRao — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 04:40:24 GMT

data ds;
input id var ;
datalines;
1 20
2 200
3 450
;
run;


data ds1;
input id var$ ;
datalines;
1 AA1 
2 BB2
;
run;


data concat;
set ds ds1;
proc print;
run;

Re: numeric and charater variables concat

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 04:59:21 GMT

Do a search for "variable has been defined as numeric and character" here on the communities, and you'll find your answer. This topic has come up hundreds of times.

Re: numeric and charater variables concat

ballardw — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:08:19 GMT

You are appending data sets. Variables of the same name must be of the same type. And if they are of different lengths you will get warnings about possible truncation of data.