Converting Numeric and Character Data

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1Converting Numeric Variables and Character Variables in SASRandall Reilly; Covance Clinical Pharmacology; Madison, WIINTRODUCTIONThis paper gives a general understanding of how to convert Numeric and Character SAS variables Numeric VARIABLES TO Character VARIABLESThe simpliest way to convert Numeric data to Character data is using the PUT function. Converting numbers tocharacters is quite you have only whole numbers use the following statement:charvar = STRIP(PUT(numvar, 8.));This will output the Character values as whole numbersExample:FROMTO77696934341212***Yo u should always format the new Character variables ( format charvar $8.)

CONVERTING CHARACTER VARIABLES TO NUMERIC VARIABLES The simpliest way to convert numeric data to character data is using the INPUT function. If you have only numeric data as an integer in a character variable use the following statement: numvar = INPUT(charvar, 8.); Example: FROM TO 7 7 69 69 34 34 12 12

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