Hi, do bear in mind this topic was closed 6 years ago. Its a good idea to open new questions as things will have changed in that time.
In terms of will the data be the same when imported back, the answer is it will retain the data part, however anything SAS specific will not, so if you export:
A B C
1 2 3
You will get a dataset with columns named A,B,C, and one row of data 1,2,3, but you will not necessarily get the right length, format, informat. And also depending on language settings/special characters etc. the data might be different too.
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