Date:         Thu, 6 May 2010 11:58:35 -0300
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From:         SAS User <sasusr@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Complete a character variable with 0's
Comments: To: toby dunn <tobydunn@hotmail.com>
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Thanks guys (for all the fast answers), worked!

2010/5/6, toby dunn <tobydunn@hotmail.com>:
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> Your looking for the Z format:
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> X = Put( X , Z9. ) ;
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> It left packs the sucker with leading zeros if there arent enough digits.
>
> Toby Dunn
>
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> > Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:38:02 -0300
> > From: sasusr@GMAIL.COM
> > Subject: Complete a character variable with 0's
> > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
> > Hello, what I think it was going to be easy to do it's becoming
> complicated.
> > I have a char variable with a phone number: for example 5544332. What I
> need
> > is to complete the number to have a lenght 9 with 0's at the beggining of
> > it.
> > How can I do? For example, for that number I need: 005544332, for
> 142312344
> > nothing, for 14231234 put 014231234, and so on.
> > Thanks,
> > Edf.
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