Standard and nonstandard

[swayto]

data work.input;
input Deposit Amount;
datalines;
1 10,000.00
2 $3.4k
3 $9.3e3
4 $7500
;
data work.output;
set work.input;
Num_Amout=input(amount,comma9.);
run;
What output will be created by this program, Deposit and amount are character variable?

[PeterClemmensen]

No. They are numeric variables unless you specify otherwise. In the code below they are character (notice the $).

And regarding your question: Run it and see? 🙂

data work.input;
input Deposit $ Amount $;
datalines;
1 10,000.00
2 $3.4k
3 $9.3e3
4 $7500
;

[Kurt_Bremser]

A clear case for Maxim 4. Simply try it.

Then apply Maxim 2 (Read the Log), and then Maxim 3 (Know Your Data). Inspect the columns in the data grid, or run a proc contents.

You will note that your first step results in missing values only for amount because you have 4 different ways of providing numeric data, all 4 of which are not covered by the default informat for numbers.

So you'll probably end up with reading that column as character and then doing a conditional conversion, depending on certain markers found in the string.

An example that works for your 4 datalines:

data work.input;
input Deposit _Amount :$15.;
_amount = compress(_amount,'$,');
if substr(_amount,length(_amount),1) = 'k'
then amount = input(substr(_amount,1,length(_amount)-1),best15.) * 1000;
else amount = input(_amount,best15.);
datalines;
1 10,000.00
2 $3.4k
3 $9.3e3
4 $7500
;
run;