Add digits to the value

[Smitha9]

Hi,

I have a dataset a;

ID

003

004

006

I want to add "20" in front of these values.

dataset I want:

ID

20003

20004

20006

thank you

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

Is it a character or numeric variable?
Assuming it's character since you have leading zeros, then you can use the CAT() and CAT_() family of functions.

data want;
set have;

NEW_ID = catt("20", OLD_ID);

run;