Hello everyone,
I want to know whether a macro variable is a pure numeric or it include some characters, how to do this?
For example:the macro variable ¬pure is NOT a pure numeric, it includes some characters('aqw').how to know this?
%let notpure=123aqw4567;
%let pure=12345;
Thanks
Mike
%let notpure=123aqw4567;
%put %sysfunc(notdigit(¬pure.));
%let pure=12345;
%put %sysfunc(notdigit(&pure.));
Awesome,
Thanks Art!
Mike
Why not use the SAS supplied macro DATATYP ?
Thank you Tom!
%macro test;
%let a=123;
%let b=a12;
%put 1:%DATATYP(&a);
%put 2:%DATATYP(&b);
%if %DATATYP(&b)=CHAR %then %put char;
%if %DATATYP(&b)=NUMERIC %then %put #;
%mend test;
%test;
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