topic How to convert decimal value to exponential in SAS in SAS Programming

How to convert decimal value to exponential in SAS

maggi2410 — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:11:10 GMT

hI,

My pvalue has value like : 0.000082634.

But I need to convert it into 8.26E-5. Could anyone please let me know how to do this?

Thanks,

Megha

Re: How to convert decimal value to exponential in SAS

MikeZdeb — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:26:10 GMT

Hi. If you are asking how to display that value in scientific notation, use a format ...

data _null_;

x = 0.000082634;
put x e9.;
run;

If you are really asking how to convert numeric a numeric value, it's an odd question since SAS stores all numeric values in the same manner (unless you start playing with numeric value lengths). It's just the display of the value that you can alter.

Re: How to convert decimal value to exponential in SAS

maggi2410 — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:54:21 GMT

Thank you MikeZdeb. Yes I meant display. Your solution worked. Many thanks

Re: How to convert decimal value to exponential in SAS

Reeza — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:26:05 GMT

Please mark the question as Answered 🙂