Date:         Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:50:46 -0500
Reply-To:     Tony Yang <tonyyangsxz@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Tony Yang <tonyyangsxz@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: number of digits after decimal dot
Comments: To: toby dunn <tobydunn@hotmail.com>
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Hi, Toby;
 Yes, I noticed the note from Philip that (without converting to character,
etc), perhaps there is another way to do that without converting. I do not
know.
 Thanks and have a nice night!
 Tony


 On 11/8/05, toby dunn <tobydunn@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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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
> >
>
>
>


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Best regards,
Tony