Re: character to numeric conversion Posted 08-11-2015 04:26 AM (5753 views) | In reply to saspert Formats are an option: proc format; value $ monnum 'January' = '1' 'February' = '2' ... run; *and in the datastep; month_num = put(month, $monnum.) + 0; (some programm...
1. can be up to 32 characters in length2. for character formats, must begin with a dollar sign ($),followed by a letter or underscore3.for numeric formats, must begin with a letter or underscore4. cannot end in a number5. cannot be given the name of a SAS format6. cannot include...
This is one of the products in SAS BASE. It is supporting to create user defined formats and in formats. IN VALUE STATEMENT Can be used to create user defined in formats for data reading and loading CONVERSION: (for reading) Character to character F for female M for male Numeric to nume...
One of the first lessons that SAS(R) programmers learn on the job is that numeric and character variables do not play well together, and that type mismatches are one of the more common source of errors in their-otherwise flawless-SAS programs. Luckily, converting variables from one type to ...
PROC FORMAT Statement:Define formats and informats for variablesVALUE <$>name <(format-option(s))> :names the format that you are creating(给自己的格式起一个名字)名字的限制:A numeric format name can be up to 32 characters in length. A character format name can be up to 31 characters ...
Viewtable窗口可以让你以表格形式输入数据,可以定义变量、设置属性,如name、length和 type(character or numeric). SAS 企业向导模块,aWindowsonlyapplication,has a data entry window that is very similar to the Viewtablewindow.As with Viewtable,you can define variables and give them attributes. ...
4、搭配informats 读取非标准格式的原始数据 ，赋予指定格式 /* character : $informatw.， $表示字符...
value labels to be associated to string variables, there is no way to preserve SAS's character formats in a Stata string variable. If your character variables in SAS actually have numericvalues with formats associated with them, then you can ...
12.Use SAS functions to manipulate character data, numeric data, and SAS date values. 13.Use SAS functions to convert character data to numeric and vice versa. 14.Process data using DO LOOPS. 15.Restructure SAS data sets with PROC TRANSPOSE. ...
If your file contains numeric variables or character variables with a length of eight characters or less, then you don't have to worry about using informats to read in the data. Here's an example: DATA A; INFILE 'C:\sas\example1.csv' DLM='|' DSD TRUNCOVER; INPUT FNAME $ LNAME $...