topic Re: Prefix in SAS Programming

Prefix

apple — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:15:38 GMT

I want to find all the records that have values starting with 44 in the variable X (a numeric variable)

I tried the below but it doesn't work. Thanks

data have;

set first;

where X=:'44';

run;

PGStats — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:58:44 GMT

Try

where cats(X) =: "44";

KarthikSrivasthav — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:51:40 GMT

HI Apple,

Try this ...............

DATA want ;

x=449;

if substr(cats(x),1,2)='44' then want=1;

run;

Cheers,

Karthik