Hi SAS Experts,
I tried the following solution but the problem I discovered is that numbers who arent exponential are converted to something strange as well.
One of the problems might be that my source column/variable is actually of format "number" and the example creates values in format character.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19678279/sas-programming-convert-exponential-value-to-numeric-val...
data test; a='3.24456545e-3'; output; a='3.22254e2'; output; a='9.151451'; output; a='0.151451'; output; run; data erg; set test; b=input(a,32.16); run;
Are there other ways how to deal with exponentials that are of format "number" ?
Editor's Note: Thanks to @ballardw and @Ksharp for providing examples of different informats that can be used to display the values without exponential notation. I have edited the response to include them both here.
You don't mention what you may have read to text values but try something like:
data erg;
set test;
b=input(a,best32.);
run;
data erg;
set test;
b=input(a,e32.);
run;
Editor's Note: Thanks to @ballardw and @Ksharp for providing examples of different informats that can be used to display the values without exponential notation. I have edited the response to include them both here.
You don't mention what you may have read to text values but try something like:
data erg;
set test;
b=input(a,best32.);
run;
data erg;
set test;
b=input(a,e32.);
run;
Why do you say there is any issue at all? What results do you see when you add this statement to the final DATA step:
put a= b=;
data test;
a='3.24456545e-3'; output;
a='3.22254e2'; output;
a='9.151451'; output;
a='0.151451'; output;
run;
data erg;
set test;
b=input(a,e32.);
run;
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