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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: what's the point in stored informats?
From:       "Data _null_;" <iebupdte () GMAIL ! COM>
Date:       2013-08-27 18:39:54
Message-ID: CAEZCysu9e8YedG_NeUEqjXb4ZG6LfvWqJgvB-jrTNnoM+T8u0w () mail ! gmail ! com
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PROC FSEDIT uses INFORMATS saved or otherwise.  The INPUT statement is
not the only "reader" in SAS.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Bolotin Yevgeniy
<YBolotin@schools.nyc.gov> wrote:
> Curiosity only, no important decision rests on the answers, but...
> 
> This is something that I have never quite understood - why does a SAS dataset save \
> (and check) the informats on variables? 
> Can you actually use those to read in more data? (i.e. replace the INPUT/INFORMAT \
> statements with a SET or something) and if so - how? 
> 
> 
> 
> Yevgeniy (Eugene) Bolotin
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> Division of Academics, Performance, and Support
> NYC Department of Education
> 212-374-7949
> ybolotin@schools.nyc.gov<mailto:ybolotin@schools.nyc.gov>


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