Char to Numeric conversion

[robertrao]

I have a charecter variable

The column attributes are

length 200

format $200

The values are something like 101.1  106.7

How can i convert these to numeric values so that I can use in analysis????

Thanks

[ballardw]

Assuming none of your variables are missing something like:

Var1 = input(scan(yourtextvariablenamehere,1),best8.);

Repeat for the expected number of variables. If there are many an array might help.