Date:         Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:14:40 -0800
Reply-To:     GuyA <guya.carpenter@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         GuyA <guya.carpenter@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: IFN function - strange behaviour
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All interesting, thanks.

I didn't know there was a divide function. Just a quick test though to
check to myself that it exists seemed to bring up an unusual result:

Code:

data test;
   input var1 var2;
   var3=divide(var1,var2);
   put var3;
   datalines;
1 2
2 1
0 0
0 1
1 0
;

Output:

74      input var1 var2;
75      var3=divide(var1,var2);
76      put var3;
77      datalines;

0.5
2
.
0
I

The last observation output is not a number. It's the "pipe"
character. And strangely, the variable was still numeric.

Any ideas?