Converting numerical variable to character variable

[aboral]

Hello, I have a dataset "flights" with a variable flight which is numeric.

 I am trying to convert this to a character variable.  I used the code  with put ( ) function but nothing happens. I have also tried using a different name for the new variable but it does not help. Can someone please help me out. I am using SAS University Edition.

Thanks and Regards.

data flights_1;
set flights;
flight_c = put (flight, 8.);
run;

data flights_1;
set flights;
flight = put (flight, 8.);
run;

[novinosrin]

Let us know what happened with sample data, log, output etc

and run a proc contents of your dataset and provide us that report too

[aboral]

@novinosrin Thank you for you time to look into this. While preparing a sample as you said I noticed flight_c has been already created as a character type. It was really stupid of me and I am embarrassed. I apologise for the inconvenience.

[novinosrin]

No worries 🙂