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Demo: Labels, formats, and informats

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Demo: Labels, formats, and informats

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- [Narrator] So at this point you might be asking yourself do I really need to know the number of days since January 1st, 1960 to actually work with SAS date formats? Well, the answer of course is no, that would be way too much of a pain. We use what are called informats, meaning your data's already in the appropriate format. So here I'm creating a data set called employees and I only have two variables, name, which is character, and birthday. And you'll notice here, I'm applying an informat, so I'm using the colon to tell SAS the data I'm reading in is already in the specified format. It's already in month, day, year, eight format. And if you go down to the data lines you'll see, I have my name, in this case Jill, and then a date, in this case January 1st, 1960, and Jack, 5-11-1988. So that way I don't have to actually calculate the number of days. And of course I'm reading in more than one observation per line so remember your trailing addAt symbol. And I'm going to read in this…

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