Using Informats
Overview
Remember that the general form of the INPUT statement for formatted
input is:
INPUT <pointer-control>
variable
informat.;
An
informat is an instruction that tells SAS how to read raw data. SAS
provides many informats for reading standard and nonstandard data
values. Here is a small sample.
Selected Informats for Reading Data
|
PERCENTw.d
|
DATEw.
|
NENGOw.
|
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$BINARYw.
|
DATETIMEw.
|
PDw.d
|
|
$VARYINGw.
|
HEXw.
|
PERCENTw.
|
|
$w.
|
JULIANw.
|
TIMEw.
|
|
COMMAw.d
|
MMDDYYw.
|
w.d
|
Note that
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each informat contains a w value to indicate the width of the raw data field
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each informat also contains a period, which is a required delimiter
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for some informats, the optional d value specifies the number ...
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