Date:         Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:38:12 +0000
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From:         Paul Dorfman <paul_dorfman@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: converting string (spaces) to numeric
Comments: To: aigonia@CA.IBM.COM
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Alvin,

Just take a look at the COMPRESS() function...

Kind regards,
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Paul M. Dorfman
Jacksonville, FL
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>From: Alvin Igonia <aigonia@CA.IBM.COM>
>Reply-To: Alvin Igonia <aigonia@CA.IBM.COM>
>To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: converting string (spaces) to numeric
>Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:22:22 -0400
>
>Has anyone ever converted a string to numeric (ie. '1 000 000' to 1000000).
>
>I have a program I am trying to modify.  The data has change.  We use to
>read the data string without any spaces but now it contains spaces.
>
>I don't really want to do a do-loop and check for spaces but if it's the
>only way, i guess i will have to.

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