https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Filtering-Out-by-Contains/m-p/516856#M32607 This should help you. <A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Check-numeric-values-in-alphanumeric-variables/td-p/19247" target="_blank">https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Check-numeric-values-in-alphanumeric-variables/td-p/19247</A><BR /> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:18:35 GMT tomrvincent 2018-11-28T20:18:35Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Filtering-Out-by-Contains/m-p/516854#M32606 <P>I have a 'Name' column that is pulling in some generic data sets than contain numerics. How do I create a filter that pulls out any name containing a numeric when the column is in character format? I've tried NOT CONTAINS and NOT LIKE and keep getting ERROR: LIKE operator requires character operands. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!</P> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:05:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Filtering-Out-by-Contains/m-p/516854#M32606 Tihannah 2018-11-28T20:05:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Filtering-Out-by-Contains/m-p/516856#M32607 This should help you. <A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Check-numeric-values-in-alphanumeric-variables/td-p/19247" target="_blank">https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Check-numeric-values-in-alphanumeric-variables/td-p/19247</A><BR /> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:18:35 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Filtering-Out-by-Contains/m-p/516856#M32607 tomrvincent 2018-11-28T20:18:35Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Filtering-Out-by-Contains/m-p/516881#M32608 <P>Not really what I was looking for, but I used the NOTANYDIGIT I found through one of the subsequent links to create a flag for the rows that contained a number and then filtered them out of the dataset. Thanks!</P> Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:43:15 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Filtering-Out-by-Contains/m-p/516881#M32608 Tihannah 2018-11-28T21:43:15Z