Date:         Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:08:45 +0200
Reply-To:     F a b r i z i o <Fabrizio1@USA.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         F a b r i z i o <Fabrizio1@USA.NET>
Organization: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Subject:      Re: Character Insertion

Jeff Gropp wrote in message ...
>Yep, it's me again.
>I have a character variable, X, (already in a sas data set) and I want to
>place a zero in front of each value of X.  That is, if X = 789 (these #'s
>have been read as characters), I want X to equal 0789.
>Thanks,


That's an easy one, as long as each of your values still has at least 1
'empty' byte at the end of its value.

Just code:  X = '0' || X;

If, however, you have values for X which are filled completely,
you first have to declare X in your datastep with a new length.

Assume your current X has maximum length 5, you might code:

DATA xxx;
   LENGTH X $6;
   SET xxx;
   X = '0' || X;
   RUN;

Brgds; Fabrizio