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Pooja98
Fluorite | Level 6

what is use of  " ??best. "  format? How it will work?

 

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

The double-question mark supresses the printing of invalid data notes in the log, and prevents SAS from setting _ERROR_ to equal 1 when invalid data is encountered.

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmmvacdc&cdcVersion=9.4&docsetId=lefunctionsref&docsetTarget=p...

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

The double-question mark supresses the printing of invalid data notes in the log, and prevents SAS from setting _ERROR_ to equal 1 when invalid data is encountered.

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmmvacdc&cdcVersion=9.4&docsetId=lefunctionsref&docsetTarget=p...

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Paige Miller
PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

@Pooja98 

Since the reply I gave was helpful to you, please do something helpful for the rest of us. From now on, make the subject line a short but meaningful description of your SAS problem. Phrases like "Doubt" "Need Help" "Don't Understand" are not acceptable as they don't help anyone find topics of interest.

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Paige Miller
Pooja98
Fluorite | Level 6

I'll follow your advice

 

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