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SAS 9.4 Language Reference, Second Edition
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SAS 9.4 Language Reference, Second Edition

by SAS Institute
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
824 pages
24h 21m
English
SAS Institute
Content preview from SAS 9.4 Language Reference, Second Edition
If you use a character variable with an operator that requires numeric operands, such
as the plus sign, SAS converts the character variable to numeric.
If you use a comparison operator, such as the equal sign, to compare a character
variable and a numeric variable, the character variable is converted to numeric.
If you use a numeric variable with an operator that requires a character value, such as
the concatenation operator, the numeric value is converted to character using the
BEST12. format. Because SAS stores the results of the conversion beginning with
the right-most byte, you must store the converted values in a variable of sufficient ...
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