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SAS: converting variable types from character to numeric (and vice versa)

The following SAS code demonstrates character to numeric and numeric to character conversion:

/* convert character to numeric */
new_num=input(char4,best4.);

/* convert numeric to character */
new_char=put(numeric,4.0);

http://www.pauldickman.com/teaching/sas/char_to_num.php