Hello,   I am trying to read the pipe delimited file in which one of the character column is having long description starting from line1 to line3 or line1 to line2.  I am unable to read this in sas dataset. Please help me to resolve the issue. example: 1009|234|long description in comments and need to be updated in the sas dataset. Thank you for uploading data|264,00|345,09|address 1010|235|long description in comments and need to be updated in the sas dataset|546.08|589|address   Thank you in advance. ... View more

Hello,   I am trying to convert an amount field from character to numeric using input function but unable to do. Getting error Invalid argument to input function.   I have tried commaw.d , bestw.d informats as well but its not working. amount=input(amount_old,20.2); example: data in amount_old field 23.45 12,300.56 123,123.23   Thanks in advance. ... View more