Character data in Numaric variable.

[kuridisanjeev]

Hi all..

Is it possible to enter a text in a numaric variable with out changing that variable into character variable???

[Keith]

There are 2 ways I can think of to have text showing in a numeric field.

1. Formatted value, you can create a format to display the number as text
2. Special missing values (.A - .Z and ._).

[Gerd47]

Hi,

no, this isn't possible.

If you want to combine a numeric value with a text, you have to generate a second (character) variable.

For example:

data test;

   length b $ 20;

   a=1; 

   b=cats(a,'test');

   run;

proc fsview; run;

Hope, this helps.