Replace missing values in SAS

Question

How do you replace all missing values with zeroes in SAS? I have a text file that I dump into SAS to process some geo data, but whenever it has a missing value it breaks the

Answer 1

Another option:

proc stdize data=mydata reponly missing=0 out=newdata;
var _numeric_;
run;

If you have SAS/STAT, probably faster than the datastep option for large datasets.

Answer 2

You can set all the missing values to 0 with like this:

data myData;
set myData;
array a(*) _numeric_;
do i=1 to dim(a);
if a(i) = . then a(i) = 0;
end;
drop i;

This will convert any numeric "." to a 0