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Common SAS Informats

Category	Informat	Description	Width Range
Character	$w.	Read character data; trims leading blanks.	1 - 32,767
	$CHARw.	Read character data; does not trim leading blanks.	1 - 32,767
	$HEXw.	Read hex ASCII characters as character data.	1 - 32,767
Numeric	w.d	Read standard numeric data.	1 - 32
	COMMAw.d	Read numeric data with embedded commas, $, and ( ) for negative values.	1 - 32
	PERCENTw.	Convert percentages to numeric values.	1 - 32
	HEXw.	Read hex values as numeric.	1 - 16
	IBw.	Read binary integer values as numeric.	1 - 8
	PDw.	Read packed decimal values as numeric.	1 - 16
Date	DATEw.	Read date as ddmmmyy or ddmmmyyyy, where mmm are the letters of abbreviation.	7 - 32
	MMDDYYw.	Read date as mmddyy or mmddyyyy, where the mm are digits.	6 - 32
	DDMMYYw.	Read date as ddmmyy or ddmmyyyy, where the mm are digits.	6 - 32
	JULIANw.	Read Julian date as yyddd or yyyyddd.	5 - 32
	TIMEw.	Read time as hh:mm:ss.ss; 24 hour clock.	5 - 32
	DATETIMEw.	Read date and time as ddmmmyy hh:mm:ss.ss or ddmmmyyyy hh:mm:ss.ss.	5 - 32
	ANYDTDTEw.	Read time in various formats.	5 - 32




Note: The digit w can often be omitted for dates and times, but might give unexpected results.  If the digit w is included, but gives wrong results, try increasing of decreasing the digit.