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How to present Alpha character in dataset?

Sudhakar_A — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:11:57 GMT

Hi ,

I want to put a Alpha symbol in dataset how to present , i tried using the Byte(224) , but i am not getting the alpha symbol.

How to store the alpha symbol in character variable?

Thanks

Sudhakar

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

SPR — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:08:44 GMT

Hello Sudhakar_A,

What are you trying to accomplish? I used BYTE(224) and got the following result:
[pre]
data a;
x=BYTE(224);
y=BYTE(65);
put x= y=;
run;
[/pre]
In the LOG:
[pre]
x=à y=A
[/pre]
Is this what you need?
Sincerely,
SPR

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

Sudhakar_A — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:43:51 GMT

Hi SPR,

I want alpha symbol should be presented as it is in the dataset.

Thanks

Sudhakar

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

SPR — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:25:36 GMT

The following program outputs all available letters, digits ans symbols:
[pre]
data a;
do i=0 to 255;
s=BYTE(i);
output;
end;
run;
[/pre]
I ran it om my computer. the output does not contain the alpha character. Your result could be different because characters 127-255 depend on character set used.
SPR

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

Sudhakar_A — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:15:49 GMT

Hi SPR,

Forgot about my way of approach, can please you tell me how to bring the alpha symbol in the dataset?

Thanks

Sudhakar

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

SPR — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:45:38 GMT

How are you going to use a variable contaning greek letters? May be you need them only for titles, axis , etc? For example, for Title you can use the following code:
[pre]
ods escapechar="^";
title "Greek letter ^{unicode 03B1}";
data a;
a=1;
run;
proc print data=a;
run;
[/pre]
that prints greek alpha in the title;
SPR

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

Sudhakar_A — Sat, 21 May 2011 03:39:13 GMT

Hello,

I dont want to print but to store the symbol in the dataset.

Thanks

Sudhakar

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

raveena — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:06:01 GMT

Hi Sudhakar,

Can you please provide us an example how your dataset needs to generate?

Thanks

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

Sudhakar_A — Tue, 24 May 2011 02:32:45 GMT

Hi Raveena,

Any way is ok, Datalines, infile, or import, anything is ok for me, but i want the alpha character in the dataset, and i want to submit the dataset with alpha symbol to client.

I want to create a text variable in the dataset with alpha character

Thanks

Sudhakar Message was edited by: Sudhakar_A

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

raveena — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:30:29 GMT

Hi Sudhakar,

I am not sure what exactly you are expecting in the dataset.If you need to create a
new variable with alpha characters then you can use the below code,

data test;
input name $ age ;
datalines;
abc 23
fgh 6
;
run;

data test1;
set test;
alpha ="A";
run;

The example above illustrates creating a new character variable named “alpha” which contains the letter “A” for all observations in the dataset. Note that the value must be enclosed either in single or double-quotes, because this is a character variable. (alpha ="A";)

Thanks

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

Sudhakar_A — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:59:33 GMT

Hi Raveena,

Thanks for that. I dont want a variable name as alpha in the dataset but, i want a variable which holds the greek alpha character symbol as a value in the observation.

Thanks

Sudhakar

Re: How to present Alpha character in dataset?

RickM — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:36:59 GMT

It is possible to use UTF-16 encoding and the hexadecimal code ( var='03b1'x; ) but there is no way to ensure that it will appear correctly for someone else. I would suggest contacting tech support to see if they have a solution.