Do we know how sas decides the name of the format ? Why is the name "sexa" and not only "sex" ? In DI-studio I have job importing a sav-file and then I run a proc format with cntlout=xxx.fmtvalues In this dataset fmtvalues I can see I have a format called "AFB30AH" If I run the job again I get a new format "AFB30AHA" And because I have the same session with the same work-folder with the format-catalog, I now have both formats. My metadata for the imported data is updated with format name AFB30AH from the first run. So now I get a warning when I run my job the second time, because the formatnames don't match. Why do SAS put an "A" in the end for the formatname when run twice ? If I run my job again I DONT get a format with "B" in the end 🙂
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