topic Re: Greater than or Equal to (GE) on a character variable in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Greater-than-or-Equal-to-GE-on-a-character-variable/m-p/110829#M258929 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000780367.htm">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000780367.htm</A></P><P></P><P>Scroll down to the section entitled "Character Comparisons".</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:38:03 GMT Tim_SAS 2013-10-11T18:38:03Z Greater than or Equal to (GE) on a character variable https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Greater-than-or-Equal-to-GE-on-a-character-variable/m-p/110828#M258928 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>al toHi all</P><P></P><P>I would like to understand how SAS processes when we give GE or LE on a alphanumeric field. It doesn't give an error, but I would like to know how it handles it.</P><P></P><P>Eg: IF TEST GE "5000" where test is a character field. What values come true for this condition?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:26:36 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Greater-than-or-Equal-to-GE-on-a-character-variable/m-p/110828#M258928 DeepSiv 2013-10-11T18:26:36Z Re: Greater than or Equal to (GE) on a character variable https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Greater-than-or-Equal-to-GE-on-a-character-variable/m-p/110829#M258929 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000780367.htm">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000780367.htm</A></P><P></P><P>Scroll down to the section entitled "Character Comparisons".</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:38:03 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Greater-than-or-Equal-to-GE-on-a-character-variable/m-p/110829#M258929 Tim_SAS 2013-10-11T18:38:03Z Re: Greater than or Equal to (GE) on a character variable https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Greater-than-or-Equal-to-GE-on-a-character-variable/m-p/110830#M258930 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What may not be immediately obvious is that, at least with ASCII character sets, </P><P>'ABC' GE '5000'</P><P>is true</P><P></P><P>Richard</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 12 Oct 2013 01:13:35 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Greater-than-or-Equal-to-GE-on-a-character-variable/m-p/110830#M258930 RichardinOz 2013-10-12T01:13:35Z