Hi,
I`m trying to convert decimal values to character. But i can not preserve the decimal values.
For example, 0.0078 shows up as 0.
Is there anyway i can preserve the exact decimal places after converting to character?
Thanks,
Saravanan
You should supply a bit more information about what you did that did not work, what you have and what you want, that sort of thing.
Hi,
This is the dataset. A is numeric.
A
0.1245
0.0045
0.0235
I need to convert this numeric variable to character. 'A' should be a character in my output.My output should be
A
0.1245
0.0045
0.0235
I tried A1=put(A,$6);
Thanks,
Saravanan
You need to use the proper format in the PUT function see post from Anca tilea.
Thank you for your assiatance. Much appreciated.
saravanan
This would be one way:
data temp;
length y $10;
x = 0.03456;
y = put(x, 10.4);*I arbitrarily selected 4 decimal...which means 10.4 format allows for 10 characters, from which 4 are the decimal part;
run;
Good luck!
Anca.
Thank you so much. It works fine.
Saravanan
You are welcome.
Please mark the thread as answered so users don't try to come up with more answers.
Thanks.
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