help with :ERROR: Expression using equals (=) has components that are of different data types.

[Armand]

typo error, it  should be  b.score

[Tom]

All of the = signs are where you are comparing variables from one table with variables from the other table.

For at least one of those the one table has the variable a numeric and the other has it as character.

It probably is best to find out why and fix the tables.

If you cannot do this then you can convert the numeric variable value to character string using put() function.  For example put(a.status,1.).  Or if the character values are valid numbers you can use the INPUT() function to convert them to a number. Example input(b.status,1.)

[Armand]

i did :

select put(a.status,1.), put(b.status,1.)  or in the case when statement  i get this error:

ERROR: Expression using equals (=) has components that are of different data types.

ERROR: Numeric format F in PUT function requires a numeric argument.

ERROR: Numeric format F in PUT function requires a numeric argument.

any idea?

thanks!

[mohamed_zaki]

from a.Client_Report2

left join b.Client_Report1 on a.Client_id=b.Client_id;

Is a and b refer to libref or you mean alias and your data set is in work ?

try

from Client_Report2 a

left join Client_Report1 b on (a.Client_id=b.Client_id);

[Armand]

sorry mistype

i did in my code as you mentioned above.