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Converting Numeric and Character Data
1 Converting Numeric Variables and Character Variables in SASR andall 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**You should always format the new Character variables ( format charvar $8.)
6 Notice that the SSS did not convert to a long name because it isn’t in the PROC FORMAT. **** The DEFAULT option: When using PROC FORMAT the maximum length of …
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