I want to find all the records that have values starting with 44 in the variable X (a numeric variable)
I tried the below but it doesn't work. Thanks
data have;
set first;
where X=:'44';
run;
Try
where cats(X) =: "44";
PG
HI Apple,
Try this ...............
DATA want ;
x=449;
if substr(cats(x),1,2)='44' then want=1;
run;
Cheers,
Karthik
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