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amahamud77
Calcite | Level 5

Hello,

I'm trying to concatenate two numeric columns. I used put function to do that and my output result shows space between them and it converted to character. Your help is appreciated.

newnumber=put(old_num, z8.)||visit;

Here's how the output result looks like

newnumber

01234567  1234

The only thing I don't want to see is the space between them. I would like to see

newnumber

012345671234

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PGStats
Opal | Level 21

For a character value :

newnumber=cats(put(old_num, z8.),visit);


for a numeric value

newnumber=input(cats(put(old_num, z8.),visit), best.);


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PGStats
Opal | Level 21

For a character value :

newnumber=cats(put(old_num, z8.),visit);


for a numeric value

newnumber=input(cats(put(old_num, z8.),visit), best.);


PG

PG
amahamud77
Calcite | Level 5

Thanks a lot! it worked and just tweaked a little bit.

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