What is the difference between an informat and a format?
Name three informats or formats.

Answer Posted / chandu

Informat tells SAS how to read the raw data,
Format tells SAS how to print the raw data into user
readable pattren....

Chiranjeevi garu, for your information,
Format statement can be used in both DATA step as well in
PROC step.....

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