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Re: informat for "£12,345.67"

From Bruno Müller <bruno.mueller@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.sas
Subject Re: informat for "£12,345.67"
Date 2011-06-09 23:52 -0700
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On Jun 9, 10:08 pm, GuyA <guya.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Very simple (and stupid) question:
>
> String as follows (includes quotes): "£12,345.67"
>
> What informat do I need to read that in from an external text file?
>
> Thanks.

Try code below, it uses the NLMNY informat together with the proper
language and region setting for LOCALE system option

options locale = en_gb;
data test;
  infile cards ;
  input
    number  nlmny20.
  ;
  putlog _all_;
cards;
£12,345.67
;

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informat for "£12,345.67" GuyA <guya.carpenter@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 13:08 -0700
  Re: informat for "£12,345.67" Bruno Müller <bruno.mueller@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 23:52 -0700
    Re: informat for "£12,345.67" GuyA <guya.carpenter@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 07:17 -0700
      Re: informat for "£12,345.67" Sas-k <sashi1985@gmail.com> - 2011-06-11 04:00 -0700

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