topic Re: loosing leading zeros when writing to an excel file in SAS Programming

loosing leading zeros when writing to an excel file

karenmongan0 — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:05:22 GMT

I am writing a SAS dataset to an excel file using the FILE command, not the ODS to which I may not have permission since I am using SAS University edition.

Is there any commands to prevent the leading zeros from being stripped away when being written to the excel file, using the FILE command.

Thanks,

Karen

Re: loosing leading zeros when writing to an excel file

ballardw — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:17:32 GMT

Please provide example of your data and how you wrote the file if you would like any tested code provided.

You may have to force quotes into the output data otherwise it is Excel stripping the leading values, treating a variable that should be character as a number.

Re: loosing leading zeros when writing to an excel file

Ksharp — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 01:54:55 GMT

Add a character value before it . Like : single quote( ' ) or TAB character ( '09'x ) .