(Repost) Raul describes, for the benefit of Digital Network Intelligence analysts who run into weird jumbles of characters such as "D", how HTML special characters work. DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST ...

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 ...

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 ...

Non-alphabetic or non-numeric character, such as @, #, $, %, &, * and +. Also called a "symbol." See alphanumeric and Win typing special characters. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...