Disclaimer: I'm brand new to SAS. But I've created a new data set named "employee_info" and I cannot figure out how to change the variable type of the salary column to currency. This is the code I get, which does not specify the individual variables:
PROC IMPORT doesn’t allow you to change types, but I don’t thing that’s your issue anyways.
SAS only has two types, numeric and character. Which of those is your variable? There is a currency format that can be applied, which may be what you’re looking to do.
@cbuon wrote:
Disclaimer: I'm brand new to SAS. But I've created a new data set named "employee_info" and I cannot figure out how to change the variable type of the salary column to currency. This is the code I get, which does not specify the individual variables:
Thank you for responding! The format type is numeric, how do I apply the currency format?
data sample;
x= 100000;
format x dollar12.;
run;
proc print data=sample;run;
Use a FORMAT statement as above.
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To add to @Reeza: assigning a format does not change the type or the contents of a variable (the type can't be changed at all), but it changes the way the contents are displayed. You still need to use the raw value in comparisons, for example.
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