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?
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000780367.htm
Scroll down to the section entitled "Character Comparisons".
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrcon/62955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000780367.htm
Scroll down to the section entitled "Character Comparisons".
What may not be immediately obvious is that, at least with ASCII character sets,
'ABC' GE '5000'
is true
Richard
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