Returns a value using a specified format
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source
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identifies the SAS variable or constant
whose value you want to reformat. The source
argument can be character or numeric.
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format.
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contains the SAS format that you want applied
to the variable or constant that is specified in the source. To override the
default alignment, you can add an alignment specification to a format:
The format must be the same type (numeric or character)
as the value of source. The result of the PUT
function is always a character string. If the source is numeric, the resulting
string is right aligned. If the source is character, the result is left aligned.
Use PUT to convert a numeric value to a character value.
PUT writes (or produces a reformatted result) only while it is executing.
To preserve the result, assign it to a variable.
The PUT statement and the PUT function are
similar. The PUT function
returns a value using a specified format. You must use an assignment statement
to store the value in a variable. The PUT statement writes a value to an external
destination (either the SAS log or a destination you specify).
In this example, the first statement converts the values
of CC, a numeric variable, into the four-character hexadecimal format, and
the second writes the same value that the PUT function returns.
cchex=put(cc,hex4.);
put cc hex4.;
In this example, the PUT function returns a numeric
value as a character string. The value 122591 is assigned to the CHARDATE
variable. The INPUT function returns the value of the character string as
a SAS date value using a SAS date informat. The value 11681 is stored in the
SASDATE variable.
numdate=122591;
chardate=put(numdate,z6.);
sasdate=input(chardate,mmddyy6.);
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