Max soon takes a magical ride to the North Pole and appears before SANTA in his courtroom, run by ELVES. Santa tells Max that in order to make the nice list, he must help RICK WILDER, a bitter man, find the spirit of Christmas. MAX is whisked off to the San Francisco Bay Area with Hercules.
Convert character to numeric. To convert character values to numeric values, use the INPUT function. new_variable = input(original_variable, informat.); The informat tells SAS how to interpret the data in the original character variable. For example, if you have a simple string of digits like 12345678, you can use the basic numeric informat w.d:
Using Unicode Data. The Unicode specification defines a single encoding scheme for most characters widely used in businesses around the world. All computers consistently translate the bit patterns in Unicode data into characters using the single Unicode specification. This ensures that the same bit pattern is always converted to the same character on all computers.