BookmarkSubscribeRSS Feed
🔒 This topic is solved and locked. Need further help from the community? Please sign in and ask a new question.
DavidPhillips2
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Fiscal_Period_Year = put(trim(left(Fiscal_Year)) || trim(left(put(Fiscal_Period, Fiscal_Period_Format.))));

 

Any idea why in a data step Fiscal_Period_Year is not saving as a number?  I’m running into a scenario where it is saving as a giant string.

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Accepted Solutions
Reeza
Super User
Try Input, PUT converts to a character.

View solution in original post

2 REPLIES 2
Reeza
Super User
Try Input, PUT converts to a character.
DavidPhillips2
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

thanks

hackathon24-white-horiz.png

2025 SAS Hackathon: There is still time!

Good news: We've extended SAS Hackathon registration until Sept. 12, so you still have time to be part of our biggest event yet – our five-year anniversary!

Register Now

How to Concatenate Values

Learn how use the CAT functions in SAS to join values from multiple variables into a single value.

Find more tutorials on the SAS Users YouTube channel.

SAS Training: Just a Click Away

 Ready to level-up your skills? Choose your own adventure.

Browse our catalog!

Discussion stats
  • 2 replies
  • 1259 views
  • 0 likes
  • 2 in conversation