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DeepSiv
Fluorite | Level 6

al toHi all

I would like to understand how SAS processes when we give GE or LE on a alphanumeric field. It doesn't give an error, but I would like to know how it handles it.

Eg: IF TEST GE "5000" where test is a character field. What values come true for this condition?

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RichardinOz
Quartz | Level 8

What may not be immediately obvious is that, at least with ASCII character sets,

'ABC' GE '5000'

is true

Richard

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