Date:         Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:05:17 -0500
Reply-To:     Lorne Klassen <lk1@ROGERS.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Lorne Klassen <lk1@ROGERS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Counting digits
Comments: To: Barry Schwarz <barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM>

Barry, I should've mentioned that our values will never go beyond large
dollar amounts. I can't see any way we would have more than 12 digits to
the left of the decimal. I just used the format 32. for good measure.


On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:58:34 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A
<barry.a.schwarz@BOEING.COM> wrote:

>What value would like to obtain for the SAS constant 1.35e147?
>
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>Subject: Counting digits
>
>Simple question: I want to get the number of digits to the left of the
>decimal place from a value in a numeric variable (excluding negative sign
>if there is one).
>
>I can live with the following which works but I'm wondering if it can be
>even simpler than this? I thought there might be a numeric function to do
>it directly but couldn't find one.
>
>y = 76877.234;
>result = countc(put(int(y),32.),,"d");
> or
>result = length(compress(put(int(y),32.)," -"));