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HyunJee
Fluorite | Level 6

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.

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ballardw
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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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ballardw
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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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