Date:         Tue, 29 Jul 1997 19:13:37 GMT
Reply-To:     Mark Smith <Mark.Smith@DAL.CA>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Mark Smith <Mark.Smith@DAL.CA>
Organization: Dalhousie University
Subject:      string question
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Is there a way in SAS to do the following (example is in BASIC code):
 
   x$ = string(20,"0");
 
after execution, x$ contains 20 zeros. I'm bascially looking for a way
in SAS to initialize a var with a string of zero's. The number of zeros'
is dependant on some other value so the number of zeros changes with
each execution of the datastep.
 
Thanks,
 
-- Mark