Date:         Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:43:13 +0000
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From:         toby dunn <tobydunn@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: number of digits after decimal dot
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Tony,

Doing it that way will make a conversion from numeric to character
implicitly.  Do it that way and look at the log you will see a note in there
telling you that  a conversion was made.  The problem I see is that al the
sas functions that i can figure to use will do this implicit conversion.

Toby Dunn





From: Tony Yang <tonyyangsxz@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject: Re: number of digits after decimal dot
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Hi, Philip;
  You can try to use SCAN function and set . as a delimiter, then you can
use
LENGTH function to count the number of digits.
  Hope this helps.
  Best regards,
Tony

  On 11/8/05, Philip Primak <pprimak@gmail.com> wrote:
 >
 > Hi
 >
 > What is the simplest way to calculate number of digits after decimal
 > dot (without converting to character, etc)?
 >
 > x=1.2345 nd=4
 > x=801.500 nd=1
 > x=20 nd=0
 > x=3.14 n=2
 > ...
 >
 > Thank you
 > Philip Primak
 >