What's New in SAS 9.3 Formats and Informats

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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.

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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.

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Changes to SAS Language Reference: Dictionary

Prior to SAS 9.3, this document was part of SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. Starting with SAS 9.3, SAS Language Reference: Dictionary has been divided into seven documents:

• SAS Data Set Options: Reference
• SAS Formats and Informats: Reference
• SAS Functions and CALL Routines: Reference
• SAS Statements: Reference
• SAS System Options: Reference
• SAS Component Objects: Reference (contains the documentation for the Hash Object and the Java Object)
• Base SAS Utilities: Reference (contains the documentation for the SAS DATA step debugger and the SAS Utility macro %DS2CSV)