What's New in SAS 9.3 Formats and Informats

Overview

The SAS formats and informats are now published as a separate document. They are no longer part of SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.

For SAS 9.3, there are no new or enhanced formats.

New informats read IBM date and time values that include a century marker, read Java date and time values, and read hours, minutes, and seconds in the form hhmmss or hh:mm:ss.

New SAS Informats

The following informats are new:

B8601CIw.
reads an IBM date and time value that includes a century marker, in the form cyymmddhhmmss<fff>.
B8601DJw.
reads a Java date and time value that is in the form yyyymmddhhmmssffffff.
HHMMSSw.
reads hours, minutes, and seconds in the form hhmmss or hh:mm:ss.

Changes ...

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