topic Put to a Number in SAS Programming

Put to a Number

DavidPhillips2 — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:56:11 GMT

Fiscal_Period_Year = put(trim(left(Fiscal_Year)) || trim(left(put(Fiscal_Period, Fiscal_Period_Format.))));

Any idea why in a data step Fiscal_Period_Year is not saving as a number? I’m running into a scenario where it is saving as a giant string.

Reeza — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:57:57 GMT

Try Input, PUT converts to a character.

DavidPhillips2 — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:59:39 GMT

thanks