topic Re: Character variables in SAS in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Character-variables-in-SAS/m-p/89867#M257234 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Character variables cannot be numeric but they may contain digits and otherwise look like numbers.</P><P></P><P>x='12.3';</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:33:00 GMT data_null__ 2013-09-20T19:33:00Z Character variables in SAS https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Character-variables-in-SAS/m-p/89866#M257233 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Can character variables in SAS be numeric? Can anybody give me an example? Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:13:17 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Character-variables-in-SAS/m-p/89866#M257233 JBenz 2013-09-20T19:13:17Z Re: Character variables in SAS https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Character-variables-in-SAS/m-p/89867#M257234 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Character variables cannot be numeric but they may contain digits and otherwise look like numbers.</P><P></P><P>x='12.3';</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:33:00 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Character-variables-in-SAS/m-p/89867#M257234 data_null__ 2013-09-20T19:33:00Z Re: Character variables in SAS https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Character-variables-in-SAS/m-p/89868#M257235 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:50:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Character-variables-in-SAS/m-p/89868#M257235 JBenz 2013-09-20T19:50:55Z