Under the HamiltonRatingScaleforDepression, No of Facebook Posts, No of Twitter Posts and Number of Clicks on Anti-Depression items columns in my file, there are special characters such as >. How do I write a code to read these characters?
Hi:
If you examine your file with NOTEPAD, you'll see that the field with the > and < characters is quoted:
So a standard PROC IMPORT should read the value as character. Or, you could write a DATA Step program and explicitly read the field as character. In a character variable value, any alpha characters, including punctuation are allowed.
Cynthia
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