Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them

Chapter 10: Reading Data with User-Defined INFORMATS

Introduction

Task: Reading a combination of character and numeric data

Conclusion

Introduction

Just about every SAS programmer can create and use formats. But not as many SAS programmers use PROC FORMAT to create their own informats. This is a very powerful feature of SAS. It is also quite easy to do—if you know how to write a format, you only need to learn a few things to be able to write an informat.

Task: Reading a combination of character and numeric data

Keywords

PROC FORMAT

Informat

Enhanced numeric informat

For this first task, you want to read peoples' oral temperatures. Instead of entering 98.6 (a normal body temperature), you want to enter an uppercase or lowercase 'n' (to save ...