Date:         Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:45:40 -0400
Reply-To:     Talbot Michael Katz <topkatz@MSN.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Talbot Michael Katz <topkatz@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: %SYSFUNC and PUT function
Comments: To: "Buchanan, Gordon" <gordon.buchanan@GMACRFC.COM>

Hi, Gordon.

I tried your trick,
>%let v=%sysfunc(abs(&i), z4.);
and it works fine.  Elegant.  Thank you.

Using PUTN as others suggested also appears to work:
%let v = %sysfunc(putn(&i.,Z4.));
The syntax is exactly the same as what I wanted to do with PUT, but it took
me awhile to figure that out from the PUTN documentation -- I kept wanting
to put the format string in quotes.

--  TMK  --