Thanks, Astounding. I'm confused, though. I can use class province(ref='NL') and that works fine...i.e. it's behaving as if 'NL' is the value (or an alias). Anyway, is there a way to really change the values of province? Thanks, RB
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Hi, I have numeric data representing provinces that I formatted as characters using a proc format proc format value provFmt 10='NL' 11='NS' ... I can use the character value in a model statement for example but in an if statement if province='NL' or province='NS' then ... then I get NOTE: Character values have been converted to numeric values at the places given by: (Line):(Column). and the statement fails. Any ideas on how to get around this? Thanks! RR
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