@animesh123 sure. Please mark my answer as the accepted solution if the code works for you.
The Compress Function keeps only digits from the string. 'kd' = 'keep digits'.
The Input Function converts the character string to numeric.
What numeric value do you want to extract?
Try this
data test;
string = 'a1b2c3df456';
newstring = input(compress(string, , 'kd'), 8.);
run;
@animesh123 sure. Please mark my answer as the accepted solution if the code works for you.
The Compress Function keeps only digits from the string. 'kd' = 'keep digits'.
The Input Function converts the character string to numeric.
What does _num_ mean here?
So you want to expand this logic to all numeric variables in your data step?
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