concat (catx)

[radhikaa4]

I have following dataset and I am trying to concat. percent formatted to 9.1 (already did that) 

id	freq	percent
1	1	33.3
2	1	11.1
3	1	25

But when I use this one below: 

combine = cats(freq, ' ', '(', percent, '%)')

There is  1) no space between freq and percent and all my percent numbers are super long , like this:

id	freq	percent	combine
1	1	33.3	1(33.3333333%)
2	1	11.1	1(11.1111111%)
3	1	25	1(25.0000000%)

[Kurt_Bremser]

Maxim 1: Read the Documentation.

Cats() strips values before concatenating, so the blank vanishes. Use catx() instead.

And the implicit type conversion numeric to character uses a best. format, causing the long numbers.

Also use the percent. format: 

catx(' ',freq,put(percent/100,percent7.1))

[ChrisNZ]

Or
catx(' ',freq,'('!!put(percent/100,percent7.1)!!')')