- $w. Reads any value w characters wide. If the field is empty or contains a blank or period (.), w blanks are stored
Numeric variables
Standard numeric data are the digits 0-9, a period/decimal (.), a leading sign (+ or -), and the letter E used for the specification of the size of the exponent in scientific notation.
- w. Reads standard numeric data w characters wide and converts the characters to a SAS numeric value.
- w.d Reads standard numeric data w characters wide and converts the characters to a SAS numeric value moving the decimal point d places to the left (unless a decimal point is keyed into the field, then the number of decimal places is left unchanged).
- COMMAw.d or DOLLARw.d Reads data in standard numeric format but also allows commas, parentheses, and a leading dollar sign ($).
- MMDDYYw. Reads month-day-year fields. See also DDMMYYw., DATEw., and YYMMDDw.
