Reading numeric variable with commas into SAS 9.4 version.
Your question is too vague. What software are you using, how are you importing the data, what do you want the output to look like, what does the comma refence in this instance as some countries use , as decimal place for example. If you just want to convert 18,5 to 18.5 do:
data want; set have; new_var=input(tranwrd(old_var,",","."),best.); run;
Your question is too vague. What software are you using, how are you importing the data, what do you want the output to look like, what does the comma refence in this instance as some countries use , as decimal place for example. If you just want to convert 18,5 to 18.5 do:
data want; set have; new_var=input(tranwrd(old_var,",","."),best.); run;
data want; old_var='8.123,44'; new_var=input(old_var,commax32.); format new_var comma32.2; run;
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