How would you remove a format that has been permanently
associated with a variable?
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Answer Posted / neel

There is also an another way.

data a;
attrib var1 label='Desired Label' format=desiredformat.;
set b;
run;

In this case the format associated with variable var1 in
dataatset b will be changed permanently in dataset a.

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