| Date: | Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:24:07 -0400 |
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| Reply-To: | Abelson_R <Abelson_R@BLS.GOV> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Abelson_R <Abelson_R@BLS.GOV> |
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| Subject: | Re: format W.D |
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| Content-Type: | text/plain |
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Wei,
Check out the BEST. informat. It worked when I tried it on your data.
HTH.
Robert Abelson
Bureau of Labor Statistics
abelson_r@bls.gov
"Special Relativity: The person in the other queue thinks yours is moving
faster."
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> From: wei cheng[SMTP:cheng_wei@HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 1:14 PM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: format W.D
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a character variable looks like:
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> 12.5
> 9.00
> 0.335
> 1.34
> 168
> 23.9
>
> I use input function to conver it to numeric and use format 8.2, it works
> fine for all other values except 168 which became 1.68 and is not correct.
> I
> can use IF condition to correct it. But I want to ask is there any good
> format in SAS that can be used in the input function and solve this
> problem?
>
> TIA,
>
> Wei
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