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Quartz | Level 8

There is a column that has values mix of Alphabets and numbers. I need to append a leading 0 if there only a single digit as shown below:

ColumA

MV

ZX

5

12

The above should be:

ColumA

MV

ZX

05

12

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

This works for your presented data. If you have more complex scenario, please exhaust them in your post.

data have;

input ColumA$2.;

if length(ColumA)=1 and anydigit(ColumA)>0 then ColumA=cats('0',ColumA);

cards;

MV

ZX

5

12

;

Haikuo

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