I have a character string that look like the following
5000000
4000000
3000000
I want it to show as
05000000
04000000
03000000
I know I can concatenate a leading zero to fix this, but There are many rows in the dataset that are missing this leading zero. I am looking for some kind of formating.
data have;
input str $10.;
cards;
5000000
4000000
3000000
;
data want;
set have;
want=put(input(str,32.),z8.);
run;
So you want it formated to a fixed length of 8 correct?
data have;
input str $10.;
cards;
5000000
4000000
3000000
;
data want;
set have;
want=put(input(str,32.),z8.);
run;
data have;
input str $10.;
cards;
5000000
4000000
3000000
;
data want;
set have;
length want $ 8;
want=left(str);
want=translate(right(want),'0',' ');
run;
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