Appending one variables values onto another

[bignate1030]

I simply want to copy the values from one variable onto the end of the values from another variable. I have some sample data:

time_frame          var1

100days              293

6months              651

1year                   307

And I want the end result to be 

time_frame       var1

100days293     293

6months651     651

1year307          307

[Kurt_Bremser]

Look at the cats() function.

[bignate1030]

Is there a way that I can input a hyphen or an underscore in between the time_frame and var1 values using the cats function?

Such as 6months_651?

[Kurt_Bremser]

If you want to insert some kind of delimiter, look at the catx() function. It does exactly that.

You can also do

cats(string1,'_',string2)

[Reeza]

CATX() instead of CATT().

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@bignate1030 wrote:

Is there a way that I can input a hyphen or an underscore in between the time_frame and var1 values using the cats function?

Such as 6months_651?

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[ballardw]

What is the defined length of your Time_frame variable? Is it going to be long enough to add on the entire value of var1?

If the defined length is less than 10 then you can't add anything onto 100days (7 characters) and would need to create a new variable as adding 3 more characters means you need 10 characters to hold the value.