I have a dataset that I want to remove the trailing zeros for all decimal numeric variables. Is there any easy way to do this? I used the best and it did not work.
Addapt the format of the numeric variables to showm required decimal digits.
No, there's no easy way. If you want to spend a lot of time for a limited result that approximates what you are asking for, here's a program you can fiddle with:
proc format;
value nozero 0=' 0' 1=' 1' 2=' 2' 3=' 3' 4=' 4' 5=' 5' 6=' 6' 7=' 7' 8=' 8' 9=' 9' 10='10' 11='11' other=[5.2];
run;
data test;
do j=1 to 11 by 0.01;
output;
end;
run;
proc print data=test;
format j nozero.;
run;
@Melk wrote:
I have a dataset that I want to remove the trailing zeros for all decimal numeric variables. Is there any easy way to do this? I used the best and it did not work.
Doesn't work is awful vague.
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As it is we are having to guess what "did not work".
Horrible solution I came up with for this thread, but I just ended up fixing it in the excel format and re-imported..
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