I have a variable ,it is numeric data type which contains vlaues more than 32 bytes .My requirement is to read and load the data as it as with numeric datatype using formats.I tried with various numeric formats but no luck finally i findout numeric formats has maximum 32 bytes beyond it cannot support.But i tried with Bestxw.d which has 64 bytes max length but not get expected result .Can anyone expereinced same problem and Please Suggets me.
Since SAS only uses 8 bytes real to store numbers, the precision is naturally limited. Read the data into a string, cut down to a suitable number of characters and then convert to numeric.
