Date:         Tue, 22 May 2007 15:58:04 -0400
Reply-To:     Jake Bee <johbee@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake Bee <johbee@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Functions to detect character vs. numeric vars
Comments: To: Andre Wielki <wielki@ined.fr>
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Does any know if there is a similiar way to get the vtype whilst in proc
sql?

On 5/22/07, Jake Bee <johbee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, this works fine!
>
> On 5/22/07, Andre Wielki <wielki@ined.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Jake Bee a écrit :
> > > SAS-L:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of any functions in SAS to determine if a variable is
> >
> > > char or num (instead of using proc contents to determine this)?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any info!
> > >
> > > Jake
> > >
> > >
> > Jake
> > see vtype(variable) which return N or C
> >
> > HTH
> > Andre
> >
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