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SAS 9.4 Language Reference, Second Edition
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SAS 9.4 Language Reference, Second Edition

by SAS Institute
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
824 pages
24h 21m
English
SAS Institute
Content preview from SAS 9.4 Language Reference, Second Edition
Types of Data
Definitions
data values
are character or numeric values.
numeric value
contains only numbers, and sometimes a decimal point, a minus sign, or both. When
they are read into a SAS data set, numeric values are stored in the floating-point
format native to the operating environment. Nonstandard numeric values can contain
other characters as numbers; you can use formatted input to enable SAS to read
them.
character value
is a sequence of characters.
standard data
are character or numeric values that can be read with list, column, formatted, or
named input. Examples of standard data include:
ARKANSAS
1166.42
nonstandard data
is data that can ...
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