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SAS/BASE

Posted 04-22-2008 06:33 AM (5359 views)
I have one dataset that is having 100 records in that variable names are empname empsalary now i want to eliminate last 2 characters of name variable value from every record? Can any one give clear example for the same?
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Re: SAS/BASE

Posted 04-22-2008 09:25 AM (5356 views)  |   In reply to deleted_user
This sounds like homework. So I will not give you the solution directly.

Read the SAS documentation -- available online -- for DATA and SET statements, and for LENGTH and SUBSTR functions.
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