https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Quick-Convert-of-Character-Variables-to-Numeric-500-variables/m-p/4601#M1864 Hi:<BR /> This is not really an ODS or BASE reporting question. You could look up how the INPUT statement works and the INPUT function (to turn a character variable into a number) or you could contact Tech Support for help with this specific question.<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/techsup/contact/index.html" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/techsup/contact/index.html</A><BR /> <BR /> cynthia Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:27:42 GMT Cynthia_sas 2007-09-07T16:27:42Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Quick-Convert-of-Character-Variables-to-Numeric-500-variables/m-p/4600#M1863 I’m given a text file, fix position, with over 500 variables in it. I’m not told which ones are numeric and which are character so I read them all in as characters. Is there a quick and easy way to get SAS to convert the one that could be numeric?<BR /> <BR /> Thanks.<BR /> <BR /> Timothy Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:24:21 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Quick-Convert-of-Character-Variables-to-Numeric-500-variables/m-p/4600#M1863 deleted_user 2007-09-07T16:24:21Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Quick-Convert-of-Character-Variables-to-Numeric-500-variables/m-p/4601#M1864 Hi:<BR /> This is not really an ODS or BASE reporting question. You could look up how the INPUT statement works and the INPUT function (to turn a character variable into a number) or you could contact Tech Support for help with this specific question.<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/techsup/contact/index.html" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/techsup/contact/index.html</A><BR /> <BR /> cynthia Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:27:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Quick-Convert-of-Character-Variables-to-Numeric-500-variables/m-p/4601#M1864 Cynthia_sas 2007-09-07T16:27:42Z