I am trying to convert a character variable to numeric I have a column of data with the following attributes: Data Set Name: woleaim1 Variable: age Type: Char Len: 3 Format: $3. Informat: $3. These data are formatted as character and I want to convert it to numeric. I tried the following command data woleaim1; age_num = input(age, $3.); run; This is the error message below: NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character values at the places given by: (Line):(Column). 588:23 NOTE: Variable age is uninitialized. NOTE: The data set WORK.WOLEAIM1 has 1 observations and 2 variables. Thanks!
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