Classifying a variable as a particular type of data is important when considering how to present the data. Data can be presented in a number of ways, which depends on the type of variable and the ...

To ensure we end up with an unsigned 16-bit integer variable regardless of the underlying system, we’ll be using the C standard library’s type definitions from stdint.h. We now have a new data ...

If you define a numeric variable and assign the result of a character expression to it, SAS tries to convert the character result of the expression to a numeric value and to execute the statement. If ...