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tlbrydie2
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Could someone assist me please...I'm trying to mask out the first 5 of a ssn with the following syntax in a define

 MASKSSN/A09=MASK(disbusprnssn, '*****9999');


I've also tryed something in a compute
 COMPUTE MASKSSN/A9 = MASK (disbusprnssn, '*****9999'); NOPRINT



Nethier are working...



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Tom Flynn
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COMPUTE MASKSSN/A9 = MASK (disbusprnssn, '*****9999'); NOPRINT



S/B

COMPUTE MASKSSN/A4 = EDIT (disbusprnssn, '$$$$$9999'); NOPRINT


$ sign MASKS, 9 displays that character
If you only want the last four, the format S/B A4...

Tom


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tlbrydie2
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I've got it ....thanks



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Darin Lee
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and for future reference, any other characters beside the 9 or $ (such as a slash / or dash - ) would be included into the output like
EDIT(SSN,'999-99-9999'); but would also need to be added to the format length of the output field. - Glad you got what you needed.


Regards,

Darin


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Leah
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If you want the '*****' as part of the mask, then COMPUTE MASKSSN/A9 EDIT(disbusprnssn,'$$$$$*****9999')


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tlbrydie2
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Leah...I found out yesterday that this is how I need to accomplish what I was trying to do....however I can still not answer why this worked I was cetain that this would work:

COMPUTE MASKSSN/A9 EDIT(disbusprnssn,'*****9999')

Can you explain this for me please....



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Leah
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COMPUTE MASKSSN/A9 EDIT(disbusprnssn,'*****9999')

Can you explain this for me please....


When using a mask, if you want to replace characters with other characters you have to tell the Edit routine that you are doing so,

So if you said EDIT(ssn,'999-99-9999'), you are using all of the characters and inserting dashes. If you want to replace characters you use the '$' to indicate the character, then the next character is what you want to replace it with. So EDIT(ssn,'$-$-$-$-99999') would give '----99999' in the field where 99999 would be the last five characters of ssn. Hope this makes sense to you. Your way, you insert the ***** and then get the first four characters on the ssn.


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tlbrydie2
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Thanks for the explaination.

Timothy



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GinnyJakes
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COMPUTE MASKSSN/A9 EDIT(disbusprnssn,'*****9999')


This line of code is missing an equal sign in front of EDIT and a semicolon at the end.

COMPUTE MASKSSN/A9=EDIT(disbusprnssn,'*****9999');

I don't know if that is your problem. I would think you would have gotten an error message if the code was actually in your program that way.


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