For additional information on changing columns from character to numeric and vice versa, refer to the PUT and INPUT functions and formats and informats in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. The ...

This example uses an INVALUE statement to create a numeric informat that converts numeric and character raw data to numeric data. invalue eval 'O'=4 'S'=3 'E'=2 'C'=1 'N'=0; run; data proclib.points; ...

Statistical Analysis System, also known as SAS, as the name suggests, primarily serves as a software tool for statistical analysis. SAS is also a programming software used for data manipulation, ...