Date:         Fri, 26 May 2006 02:32:05 -0400
Reply-To:     Jim Groeneveld <jim2stat@YAHOO.CO.UK>
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From:         Jim Groeneveld <jim2stat@YAHOO.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: converting numeric to char
Comments: To: Mohit Bhatia <mohit.b.bhatia@AEXP.COM>
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Hi Mohit,

What numeric value would you want to convert? How large is the value? What
should the character value look like? And what is the character value you
get? Your problem stating is incomplete without those details.

However, I can guess a little bit on that. You specify a format of [12.]. So
you want 12 digits. A new character variable has a default length of 8 bytes
 (characters) (well, unless created by a SAS function). You have to
pre-specify the longer length: LENGTH NewVar $12;

Regards - Jim.
--
Jim Groeneveld, Netherlands
Statistician, SAS consultant
home.hccnet.nl/jim.groeneveld



On Fri, 26 May 2006 11:52:30 +0530, Mohit Bhatia <mohit.b.bhatia@AEXP.COM>
wrote:

>Hi,
>I am doing this to convert numeric to character variable.
>data temp;
>length acct15 $15.;
>set temp;
>newvar=put(oldvar,12.);
>run
>
>when i take a print its not giving me the desired output.Kindly help
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