Simon Fraser University

Converting a Character column to a Numeric column

For additional information on changing columns from character to numeric and vice versa, refer to the PUT and INPUT functions and formats and informats in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. The ...
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convert character to numeric.sas

of the original character variable. This is mostly to be used with the summary data macro which will only work with numeric variables. This saves manual ifthenelse recoding (prone to error). Currently ...
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utl-converting-all-character-variables-to-numeric-except-for-one.sas

https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/converting-all-character-variables-to-numeric-except-for-one/m-p/582942 ...
Simon Fraser University

Example 4: Converting Raw Character Data to Numeric Values

This example uses an INVALUE statement to create a numeric informat that converts numeric and character raw data to numeric data. invalue eval 'O'=4 'S'=3 'E'=2 'C'=1 'N'=0; run; data proclib.points; ...
Houston Chronicle

Converting a Character to a Date With SAS

Statistical Analysis System, also known as SAS, as the name suggests, primarily serves as a software tool for statistical analysis. SAS is also a programming software used for data manipulation, ...