Date:         Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:20:35 -0700
Reply-To:     jjc@ASU.EDU
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         jjc@ASU.EDU
Subject:      Re: Numeric precision problem
Comments: To: lei_yao@YAHOO.COM
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Use PROC FREQ to find out what the current distinct values are for the
variable and then use the WHERE statement on the appropriate value.
Hope this helps.
 
James Carvalho
Arizona State University
----------------------  original message ---------------
From:    Lei Yao <lei_yao@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Numeric precision problem
 
Dear All,
 
I have a SAS data set on VAX.  There's a numeric variable called
'SCHEDULE' with some values like 1.00, 1.01 and 1.02.  I download the
data set to PC.  When I used a where statement to search observations
with schedule=1.02, the log said "No observation".  I think it is a
numeric precision problem during the data transfer between machines.
But it worked fine when I searched observations with schedule=1.01.
 
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
 
Lei Yao