Hey guys, I was training a few of my interns and we were working on infile using cards. I landed up at the code below and it surprisingly is working fine against all logic. Can anyone help me solve this mystery? Despite the fact that I have specified Date7. in my informat, I'm able to read the dates right, which are in date9.. data test; informat DepartureDate date7. ; length country $11.; format DepartureDate date9. ; input Country $ DepartureDate blah $; cards; Japan 13may2000 a New_Zealand 03feb2001 b Brazil 28feb2001 c Italy 25apr2001 z USSR 03jun1997 q Switzerland 14jan2001 a Ireland 27aug2000 r ; run; proc print; run; Regards, Varun
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