PROCLIB.STAFF contains information about a small subset of employees who work for a corporation that has sites in the U.S. and Britain. The data contain the name, identification number, salary (in British pounds), location, and date of hire for each employee. The FORMAT statement in the DATA step assigns the standard SAS format DATE7. to the variable HireDate. 
data proclib.staff;
   input Name & $16. IdNumber $ Salary 
         Site $ HireDate date7.;
   format hiredate date7.;
   datalines;
Capalleti, Jimmy  2355 21163 BR1 30JAN79
Chen, Len         5889 20976 BR1 18JUN76
Davis, Brad       3878 19571 BR2 20MAR84
Leung, Brenda     4409 34321 BR2 18SEP74
Martinez, Maria   3985 49056 US2 10JAN93
Orfali, Philip    0740 50092 US2 16FEB83
Patel, Mary       2398 35182 BR3 02FEB90
Smith, Robert     5162 40100 BR5 15APR86
Sorrell, Joseph   4421 38760 US1 19JUN93
Zook, Carla       7385 22988 BR3 18DEC91
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