Date:         Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:46:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: Mantissa function

Don't know a simple one, but maybe you can do that with something like

num=input(compress(put(num,best20.),"."),20.);

with that you won't get

997800000

so you might have to use something like:

num=input(compress(put(num/10e5,best30.),"."),30.);





On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:15:09 -0800, von-hippel.1@osu.edu
<von-hippel.1@OSU.EDU> wrote:

>Does anyone know of a simple function to extract the mantissa from a
>SAS numeric variable?
>e.g., .9978 9.978 99.978 would all be converted to .9978.
>
>Thanks!