Re: Compute newvar string+number

worked perfectly. thanks a bunch.

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Daniel Robertson
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Subject: Re: Compute newvar string+number

You can use the string() function inside the concat() to convert the
value of Year to a string for the purposes of the transformation. You
may also want to use rtrim() on the V1 variable to remove trailing
blanks as necessary, e.g.,

string newvar (a8).
compute newvar = concat(rtrim(V1),string(Year,N4)).



Parise, Carol A. wrote:
> does someone know of a trick so that i can leave year as a number?
>
> Thanks
> Carol
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