Date:         Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:20:45 -0600
Reply-To:     Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How is this proc contents possible
Comments: To: Gary Klein <kleingary@yahoo.com>
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I've seen people post that issue to the list before... I don't recall what
the answer was but it's something marginally goofy.  I wouldn't worry about
it unless you have trouble with using the dataset (you might need OPTIONS
NOFMTERR).

-Joe

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Gary Klein <kleingary@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>