For example, TempCharacter='98.6'; TemperatureNumber=input (TempCharacter,4.); Here, the INPUT function in combination with the w. d informat reads the character value of TempCharacter as a numeric ...

%SYSFUNC The %SYSFUNC (or %QSYSFUNC) macro function executes SAS functions or user-defined functions and applies an optional format to the result of the function outside a DATA step. For example, the ...