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:
In an EBCDIC file, each alphabetic or numeric character is represented with an 8-bit binary number (a string of eight 0's or 1's). 256 possible characters (letters of the alphabet, numerals, and special characters) are defined.IBM's PC and workstation operating systems do not use IBM's proprietary EBCDIC.Instead, they use the industry standard code for text, ASCII. Conversion programs allow different operating systems to change a file from one code to another.BM's PC and workstation operating systems do not use IBM's proprietary EBCDIC. Instead, they use the industry standard code for text, ASCII. Conversion programs allow different operating systems to change a file from one code to another.