Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them

Chapter 1: Tasks Involving Conversion: Character to Numeric, Specific Values to Missing and Changing Case

Introduction

Task: Converting character values to numeric values

Task: Converting character values to numeric values using a macro

Task: Converting a specific value such as 999 to a missing value for all numeric variables in a SAS data set

Task: Converting a specific value such as 'NA' to a missing value for all character variables in a SAS data set

Task: Changing all character values to either uppercase, lowercase, or proper case

Task: Reading a numeric value that contains units such as Lbs. or Kgs. in the value

Task: Solving part of the previous task using a Perl regular expression

Conclusion

Introduction

This chapter contains programs ...