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OGA13
Obsidian | Level 7

I tried already with:

proc catalog catalog=work.formats;
delete "$RFICDTC";
quit;



or 



proc format library=work.formats;
delete $RFICDTC;
quit;
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ballardw
Super User

Neither.

The approach with catalog entries is NAME.TYPE. The type of object is important because you could have a program, listing or other objects with the same name. With Formats you have FORMAT and FORMATC for character formats.

You can use

proc catalog catalog=work.formats;
contents ;
run;
quit;

To get the names and type of objects in the catalog. Your example would want:

proc format library=work.formats;
delete RFICDTC.FORMATC;
quit;

 

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ballardw
Super User

Neither.

The approach with catalog entries is NAME.TYPE. The type of object is important because you could have a program, listing or other objects with the same name. With Formats you have FORMAT and FORMATC for character formats.

You can use

proc catalog catalog=work.formats;
contents ;
run;
quit;

To get the names and type of objects in the catalog. Your example would want:

proc format library=work.formats;
delete RFICDTC.FORMATC;
quit;

 

OGA13
Obsidian | Level 7

I used this option and it worked. 

 

proc catalog catalog=work.formats;
delete armnrs / et=formatc;
run;

 

But also yours seems to use the same apporach. thanks anyway!

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