Numeric values represent numbers, can be read in a variety of ways, and are stored in floating-point format. Character values can contain letters, numbers, and special characters and can be from 1 to ...

If you use a character variable with an operator that requires numeric operands, such as the plus sign, SAS converts the character variable to numeric. If you use a comparison operator, such as the ...

CHAR (number) Where number is a numeric value between 1-255 (Extended ASCII character codes). And, the syntax of the SUBSTITUTE () function is: SUBSTITUTE (text, old_text, new_text, [instance_num ...