Hi All
How can I find a sas numeric variable whether its an integer or float? If its a floating numeric variable i need to know significant digits existing in the data?
Can someone throw some ideas?
SAS numeric varables are always real number.
If you want to know if the value contained is a whole number, check if int(var) = var.
Note that you may have issues if try to search for values with certain decimal values as storage precision may not exactly match your expectation and may have to do something like:
if (round,value,0.000001) = 123.456789 then...
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