topic Re: Sas Base data type in SAS Programming

Sas Base data type

saleh — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:50:02 GMT

Hello,

I am having two sas datasets read by sas base and i am trying to make a join between two of them but the data types of the join column is not the same (int and char)

how can i convert the char column type to numeric ?

Re: Sas Base data type

RW9 — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:09:21 GMT

I would suggest you have a good read of the manula as this is a basic transformation in SAS:

put() takes a numeric and creates a text string based on the format given

input() takes a string and attempts to create a numeric based on the text being in the format given.

Re: Sas Base data type

ballardw — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:34:36 GMT

One would also suggest that if a variable was supposed to be numeric why it wasn't earlier in the process. If the data came from Proc Import there a many reasons why an expected numeric can be character and should be addressed as soon as practical.