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

Answer Posted / 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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