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bncoxuk
Obsidian | Level 7
I have a data set which has a few variables. One variable is called sex, which has a fixed length of 1, and formatted as $1. (i.e. M, or Female). This variable also has missing values. Now the question is to set the missing values as 'Other'. The following is what I did:

DATA work.test;
SET user.birth;
LENGTH sex $5.;
FORMAT sex $5.;
IF age=' ' THEN age='Other';

Unfortunately, the missing values are set to be 'O'. How can I correct this without using any new variable names?
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Doc_Duke
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
Putting the LENGTH statement before the SET statement should do it.

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