Formats : Definition
A format is an instruction that SAS uses to write data
values. You use
formats to control the written appearance of data values, or, in some cases,
to group data values together for analysis. For example, the WORDS22. format,
which converts numeric values to their equivalent in words, writes the numeric
value 692 as six hundred ninety-two.
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