Date:         Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:34:36 -0800
Reply-To:     Gary Klein <kleingary@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Gary Klein <kleingary@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      How is this proc contents possible
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Hello All,

Please see the output for a proc contents below (excuse the typesetting):


           Alphabetic List of Variables and Attributes

#   Variable    Type    Len    Format    Informat    Label
1    var1        Char     24    24.       24.         Variable1
2    var2        Char      8    8.        8.          Variable2


How does one get a numeric format for a character variable (this dataset was sent to me and I'm trying to figure out how it was created)?

Thanks.