The first of two constructors provided by ChoiceFormat accepts two arrays as its arguments. The first array is an array of primitive doubles that represent the smallest value (starting value) of each ...

Creates a format that specifies character strings to use to print variable values. Featured in: Creating a Format for Character Values. See also: The chapter on formats in SAS Language Reference: ...

When you use Microsoft Excel to analyze your company's data, you want to spot trends, successes and problems at a glance. Before you dive into an in-depth examination of specific sales results, ...

Leading zeros are those pesky place-holding 0 digits at the beginning of a number. Unfortunately, when you enter such a value, Excel applies the General numeric format and tosses out the leading zero.

For additional information on changing columns from character to numeric and vice versa, refer to the PUT and INPUT functions and formats and informats in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. The ...