What is the difference between an informat and a format.
Name three informats or formats.
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Answer / selvakumar
informat - the format used to read the variable from raw
data
format - the format used to print the values of the variable
Informat ? ddmmyy10.,
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Answer / sas - user
Informats is used to read a data in a particular format.
Formats is used to write a data in a particular format.
Both informats and formats can be customized using the proc
format procedure. Some of the commonly used informats and
formats are MMDDYYw., DATEw., COMMAw.d, $w., TIMEw. to name
a few.
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Answer / harsha
Informat-Informat is used to read the non-standared
data
Format- Format is used to print the non-standared data
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Answer / sudheer
farmat is the option which is used to print the data in the
particular way, if you declare the format option in the
data set block it will stored permanenetly, were as if you
put the format in the procedure block, it will temparary
for the printing purpose.
informat is the option which is used to read the data from
the extral file or data lines(cards0, internal data.
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Answer / gagan deep semwal
An informat is an instruction used to read data values into
a SAS variable.In addition, if a variable has not yet been
defined, SAS uses the informat to determine whether the
variable ought to be numeric or character.
A format is defined as an instruction that SAS uses to
write data values. Formats are used to control the written
appearance of data values. Both informats and formats are
of the form: <$> name <w> . <d>
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Answer / l. zeenesh meitei
informat is always used with input statement as informat
should be equal to the raw data.
where as format starts with format and can be same or
different to the raw data.. as format is used when reading
created the dataset not the raw.
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