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From: Arthur Tabachneck on 23 Dec 2009 16:37
You will get a better response if you provide an example data file.

One possibility is that 7.4 isn't large enough to put your data unless it
is written in scientific notation. For example:

data have;
input x;
cards;
504E9
505E10
506E11
;

filename stuff "k:\art\test.txt";
data _null_;
set have;
file stuff;
put x 20.4;
run;

Using 7.4 in the above example would have produced three numbers written
in their scientific notation format.

Art
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:13:07 -0500, William Shakespeare
<shakespeare_1040(a)HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>I have some numeric data that I want to output to a text file. Some of
>the data display as scientific notation in when I go to the table viewer
>in SAS. I would like to format these as 7.4. I have tried:
>
> put varname 7.4 ;
>
>to reformat the data but it still appears as scientific notation in the
>text file. How can I obtain the the data as 7.4 in my text file?
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