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

Answer Posted / vemula

informat is an instruction given to sas to read the data
values into variables
ex: date9.
ddmmyyw.;
char6.;

format is and instruction given to sas to print the
variable in to datavalues
ex; date8.
ddmonyy.;
commaw.;
dollarw.;

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