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I will say trim(left(var1))='tom some 112'
Sophie
On 7/19/06, Ya Huang <ya.huang@amylin.com> wrote:
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> can you try this and let us know what happens?
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> if left(var1)='tom some 112' then output;
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> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:18:56 -0700, jn mao <jn_mao@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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> >Hello SAS-Ls,
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> > I have a character variable. It was set 49 lenght, but most of them
> have
> 12 letters including number. I need to retrieve them. However, whatever I
> code to output them, they won't come out.
> >
> > For example, my code is
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> > if var1='tom some 112' then output;
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> > The var1 is a 12 letters data, but its length parameter shown 49. I
> don't know how these data were entered.
> >
> > Could someone help me on retrieving them? Thanks much.
> >
> > Jane
> >
> >
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