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- From: mschaeff@pilot.njin.net (Marc Schaeffer)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
- Subject: CHANGING SIGN (+/-) IN SAS 6/07 - VMS
- Keywords: SAS 6.07 VMS
- Message-ID: <Jan.22.13.52.12.1993.20399@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:52:12 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- I have a SAS data set containing financial data in which revenue is a
- negative number and expense is a positive number. Although the
- accountants understand this it confounds any other users who try to
- make sense of reports derived from the data set. Is there a way to
- reverse the sign for all values of selected variables. I
- could not do so for all numeric variables since I have a couple of
- numeric variables which are not dollar amounts. I was not able to
- find any way to do this from any available SAS documentation.
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- Advice is appreciated. If you think this might be of general interest
- you can reply to the listserv, otherwise replies to:
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- ia2512@wilpat.wilpaterson.edu
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- Thanks!
-