Hello all! I have a situation that I hope has an easy fix. I need to write a Data query in SAS VA that uses a CSV and a database table and joins them to produce a LASR table as output. I have a csv file with 3 columns, they should all be treated as character columns, however, because two of those columns have numbers in them, the Import tool in SAS VA decides to turn them into numeric columns. The issue with this is that i need to join this table to another table and I need to use one of those character columns as a key, the foreign key is of character type and i cannot change this. I was wondering if there was a way to "force" the input tool to recognize that column as character instead of numeric. I tried using an excel file instead of csv, and changed the column types to character but that did not help at all
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