Hi,
I need help in reading a text file.
My sas program is not reading dot (or fullstop) in character variable. It is coming out as missing value which is blank.
sample program.
data sample;
input name $ Quantity;
datalines;
ipad 40
. 50
iphone 100
;run;
is there any way I can read dot (.) as it is and see it in sas dataset.
Thank you
If you want SAS to not convert the '.' to ' ' then you need to use $CHAR information instead of the $ informat.
data sample;
length name $20 Quantity 8 ;
informat name $CHAR20. ;
input name Quantity;
cards4;
ipad 40
. 50
iphone 100
;;;;
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