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:
Size of Floats. In main storage and in disk storage, a float is represented with a 32-bit pattern and a double is represented with a 64-bit pattern. For input from the keyboard, character data must be converted into floating point data. For output to the monitor or to a text file, floating point data must be converted into characters. You almost never need to worry about the range of numbers that can be represented in a floating point variable.