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What is the difference between informat and format statement?



What is the difference between informat and format statement?..

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.;

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