It has been decided to implement change in data type for capturing figures/values of the parameter (s) from alpha numeric to ...

names the format you are creating. The name must be a SAS name up to eight characters long, not ending in a number. Character format names must have a dollar sign ($) as the first character and no ...

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 ...