Answer / ankit singh

Formats tells sas how to write the data to the output dataset and converts numeric to character value.
e.g. data out;
x=0;
format x date9.;
run;
Informats directs SAS to how to read the data from the source and converts charater to numeric value.;

WHAT DIFFERRENCE DID YOU FIND AMONG VERSION 6 8 AND 9 OF SAS.

4 Answers   Genzyme,

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Can anyone help me about SAS Realtime scenarios in Clinical field

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Assuming {et} is randomly drawn from N(0,1) and e0 = 0, generate 200 observations of xt = et − 0.5e(t−1) and draw a line graph of xt.

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here is a string like chq.2312244%4452- from that i want only special characters in a column. dont use compress. bcoz i have 1.2 billion of records.i want another process to find the values instant from the data.

2 Answers   Cap Gemini, L&T,

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How would you include common or reuse code to be processed along with your statements?

3 Answers   Accenture,

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how to generate report for 0 observation dataset?

3 Answers   Mind Tree, Student,

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is there any differnce between proc means and proc summary?

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Can Some one Explain How the Datasets from SAS can be loaded in to the MVS OS?

1 Answers   HCL,

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Do you use PROC REPORT or PROC TABULATE? Which do you prefer? Explain.

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how to import HTML files into SAS datasets?

3 Answers   HP,

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for what purpose would you use the retain statement? : Sas programming

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In this question, I rename the numeric variable phone to numphone and then try use phone=put(numphone,comma16.) to store the numeric value numphone as a string value in phone. But I get a warning tha numphone already exists and in the data sat phone doesnt exist and numphone is set to missing. Why? data names_and_more; input Name $20. Phone : comma16. Height & $10. Mixed & $8.; Name = tranwrd(Name,' ',' '); rename phone = numphone; phone = put(numphone,comma16.); datalines; Roger Cody 9,087,821,234 5ft. 10in. 50 1/8 Thomas Jefferson 3,158,488,484 6ft. 1in. 23 1/2 Marco Polo 8,001,234,567 5Ft. 6in. 40 Brian Watson 5,183,551,766 5ft. 10in 89 3/4 Michael DeMarco 4,452,322,233 6ft. 76 1/3 ;

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