Add trailing zeros to character data

[Patty]

I had such a wonderful response to add leading zeros to data that I am now asking for help in adding training zeros.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Amir]

Hi,

It would help to provide examples of what you have and what you'd like it to change to.

Is this character or numeric data?

Regards,

Amir.

[Patty]

It originally was numeric and I converted the data to character data. I was able to add a leading zero by doing this but I also need to add a trailing zero as well.

example:  '3' to '030'

[Amir]

Hi,

Consider either multiplying the numeric by 10 before converting it to character, or when it is character consider using the cats() function, e.g.:

var2=cats(var1,'0');

Regards,

Amir.

[Astounding]

You might want to consider adding both the leading and trailing zero in one step:

charvar = put(numvar * 10, z3.);

[Haris]

I have a similar problem.  When I merge number with decimals, the decimals that are zero get cut off.  For example, merging 2.500 and 6.050 would produce 2.5-6.05.  How do I get the program to stop cutting off the zeroes and output 2.500-6.050?

[ballardw]

The values aren't cut off it is a result of internal numeric storage.

You don't show how you have attempted to create your 2.500 - 6.050 but the likeliest answer is going to involve a format that displays at a given precision.

For example a value of 2.5 will display at 2.500 when using something like F6.3 which forces every appearance to show 3 values to the right of a decimal point.
One way to create a string of your example

data _null_;

     x= 2.5;

     y= 6.05;

     result = catx(' - ',put(x,7.3),put (y,7.3));

     put result;

run;