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:
Examples. The following example converts a datetime value in to an nvarchar value. Copy. Cast converts an expression of one data type to another. In the following example, the result of the conversion is 10.SELECT CAST(10.6496 AS int).When a data conversion occurs in which the target data type has fewer decimal places than the source data type, the value is rounded.opy. Cast converts an expression of one data type to another. In the following example, the result of the conversion is 10. SELECT CAST(10.6496 AS int). When a data conversion occurs in which the target data type has fewer decimal places than the source data type, the value is rounded.