I am trying to build a function in SAS that will concatenate and number and a percent value and return a character string result like X (Y%). Here is my code:
proc fcmp outlib = func.funcs.mwfunc; /* Create function to return a string in the style X (Y%) */ function npct(n, pct) $ 25; length concatp $25 n pct 8; n_f = n; pct_f = pct; concatp = cat(n_f, " (", round(pct_f*100,0.01),"%",")"); return(concatp); endsub; quit; /* Test function */ data _null_; x = npct(5,0.10); put x; run;
When I test this function, it produces the following result:
5 (10=)
Instead of 5 (10%).
How do I correct this? Is there some kind of masking function I need?
Thanks for the help. I am working in SAS 9.4.
Just use single quotes.
'%'
in your function definition.
Thank you, that was way easier than I anticipated!
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