topic Re: CHAR to NUMERIC in SAS Programming

CHAR to NUMERIC

ssofat90 — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:03:26 GMT

I am trying to convert char to numerci from original data set.

data census.numeric;
set census.rough;
VEHn=input(VEH,1.);
HFLn=input(HFL,1.);
run;

It works as well. Just want to check, if we can in some way associate some info about the new variables that we create so that when i do a proc contents on the new data ser the new variables also have some info about them.

Now there is no info about what they are since i replaced the original with these new ones.

Re: CHAR to NUMERIC

Shmuel — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:38:19 GMT

I guess you want to add labels to the new variables ?!

data census.numeric;
set census.rough;
VEHn=input(VEH,1.);
HFLn=input(HFL,1.);

LABEL

VEHn = ' your info for this var '

HFLn = ' your info for this var'

;

run;

Re: CHAR to NUMERIC

ssofat90 — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 04:18:12 GMT

THank you so much.. I dont know y i dont get that..
Looks like a stupid question now..