| Date: | Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:30:41 -0400 |
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| Reply-To: | Kevin Viel <citam.sasl@GMAIL.COM> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Kevin Viel <citam.sasl@GMAIL.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Call Funtions explanations please |
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:54:36 -0500, ./ ADD NAME=Data _null_,
<iebupdte@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>VVALUE is a newer V9 function that returns the FORMATTED value of the
>variable referenced in the argument. Default formats apply when no
>format is explicitly associated. One nice thing about vvalue is that
>it is "type-less", like the missing function, it accepts character or
>numeric variables equally.
Its probably worth pointing out that VVALUE() returns a *character* value.
HTH,
Kevin
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