Reading numeric varible from excel

[ari]

Reading numeric variable with commas into SAS 9.4 version.

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

Your question is too vague.  What software are you using, how are you importing the data, what do you want the output to look like, what does the comma refence in this instance as some countries use , as decimal place for example.  If you just want to convert 18,5 to 18.5 do:

data want;
  set have;
  new_var=input(tranwrd(old_var,",","."),best.);
run;

[Ksharp]

Try informat COMMAX.

[Ksharp]

data want;
  old_var='8.123,44';
  new_var=input(old_var,commax32.);
  format new_var comma32.2;
run;