hi good morning to all,   I am having one dataset name ds1 which having three variables:   original dataset: data ds1; input id          subject$      marks; datalines;        101          maths           78        102          science         88 ; run;   new dataset:   data ds3; set ds1; sub_val=input(subject,7.); run;     as my 2nd variable is a character type I'm trying it to convert into numeric data type but in output results sub_val observation missing but in properties data type it is showing numeric data type.   iam not aware how to resolve this problem set , kindly give some valuable solution regarding this problem.     regards hemen boro ... View more