In SAS how to read the variable values having different
formats.
eg:mar99,mar1999 (in a single variable)

Answer Posted / vijay

for the informats/formats in the question i.e. DATEw.
ones.. we can use the above 2 informats

if the data is in MMDDYYYYw. fashion use EURDFDTw.

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