Introduction to SAS Informats and Formats

Line o instructs SAS to read in the transaction date (Tran_Date) using the date informat MMDDYYw. Since each date field occupies 10 spaces, the w. qualifier is set to 10. Line p uses the numeric informat 8.2. The w.d informat provides instruction to read the numeric data having a total width of 8 (8 columns) with two digits to the right of

  Date, Informats, Date informat