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Rick Aster: Professional SAS Programming Secrets: Contents

Chapter 9
Program 9m
Changing the data type of a variable

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  Professional SAS Programming Secrets
  Program 9m
  Changing the data type of a variable
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data work.ab (drop=n_idnumber);
   set work.a
       work.b (in=inb rename=(idnumber=n_idnumber));
   if inb then idnumber = left(put(n_idnumber, f15.));
run;