In SAS, there is the ability to speficiy that if a variable is within a range of numbers, that you can recode them i.e. if variable in (1 2 3 4 5) then new_variable = 1;
I am wondering if the same can be done with a character variable. I am analyzing data with ICD9 codes and not all the codes are numeric. I am specifically wanting to have a series of ICD9 codes from V277 to V277.2.
Is there a way in SAS to write that I want to identify records that contain an ICD9 code between V277 and V277.2
thank you for any help you can provide.
if "V277" le yourcodevariable le "V277.2" MAY work. It may not if there are codes such as V277.12 that you do not want.
if "V277" le yourcodevariable le "V277.2" MAY work. It may not if there are codes such as V277.12 that you do not want.
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