I have the following data.
Name Age Title
Tom . Analyst
Mike . VicePresident
John . AccountManager
....and I need it to look like this.
Name Age Title
Tom Analyst
Mike VicePresident
John AccountManager
By design, the variable Age is numeric and only holds blanks. I need to eliminate the dots associated with numeric blanks, such that the Age variable is completely clear (ie. the Age variable blanks need to look like numeric blanks). The only way I know to do this, however, is to introduce a new variable that contains Age's values and recast the new variable as a character and set it to blank with an if statement. It is imperative, however, that I keep Age variable in the same location within the dataset (ie between the Name and Title variables), so I am not able to get there with what I know.
Any suggestions?
options missing='';
options missing='';
The . for missing is a system option. Inside a dataset I wouldn't worry about it. For any report procedure or data export before the procedure use:
options missing=' '; to have a single space instead of the period appear. Reset to default afterwards using option missing='.';
If you are really worried about the appearance within a data set then use the same option missing=' ';
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