I inserted STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5). in the code and the error message
went away and this new variable did get all the digits beyond 5 truncated.
What confused me is that the original ResidenceZipcode showed on the variables
table to be a string variable. I assumed that the source variable, not the
resulting variable is what had to be a string variable and that it would make
the resulting variable automatically a string variable too. I am a former SAS
programmer, and that is how it was in SAS.
Thank you very much for the help.
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 22:07:43 +0100
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Hi Ricardo,
ResidenceZipcodes is a new variable here, and is therefore assumed to
be numeric.
Unless it was your intention re-assign to ResidenceZipCode, you need to
declare the variable as a string:
STRING ResidenceZipcodes (A5).
HTH
frans
On 3/4/21 9:43 PM, Ricardo Mejias wrote:
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