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Here’s a situation that comes up pretty often. You receive a file that contains zip codes. It’s an excel file and you need to create a SAS data set out of it, so you can do some nifty market analysis. No problem, you clickety clickety through the SAS import wizard and voila! a data set is created. However, the zip_code variable is numeric and doesn’t have leading zeroes.Even though zip codes
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