Date:         Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:00:07 -0700
Reply-To:     "Terjeson, Mark" <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM>
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From:         "Terjeson, Mark" <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM>
Subject:      Re: A Help Needed for Combining two vaiables - PLEASE
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Hi Tom,

PUT() converts numeric to string
and || concatenates string pieces
together.


data sample;
    input Volume Unit $;
cards;
2 ml
4 mg
6 kg
8 ml
10 mg
;
run;

data result;
    set sample;
        Volumeu = put(Volume,2.)||' '||Unit;
run;



Hope this is helpful.


Mark Terjeson
Senior Programmer Analyst
Investment Management & Research
Russell Investments
253-439-2367


Russell
Global Leaders in Multi-Manager Investing





-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom
Smith
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:48 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: A Help Needed for Combining two vaiables - PLEASE

I have two variables ( volume and unit ) in a dataset:

Volume    Unit
------    ----
2         ml
4         mg
6         kg
8         ml
10        mg


I need to combine those two varibales into one variable (Volumeu) as
below:

Volumeu
-------
 2 ml
 4 mg
 6 kg
 8 ml
10 mg

Thanks you so much