Assume I have a numeric variable called "amount" and it has values like -159000E.3, -1125590E.0, 17000987,0.9 etc . Is there any way to find only the exponential values of this variable? In the output I need only -159000E.3 and -1125590E.0
I find difficult to manually verify the values (it has over 10L unique values) for this variable.
Depending on what your current format is your question is equivalent to "is my value greater 1000000000" or similar. I have to say I'm not familiar with a format that will use scientific notation quite that way. I would expect to see something more like -1.59E9.
@Babloo wrote:
No format has been applied to that variable.
Show the proc contents result. EVERY variable in a SAS data set has a format. By default for numeric I would expect BEST12. But the values you show for example are not typical for best12.
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