SAS Component Language Dictionary |
Category: | Variable |
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informat=VARINFMT(table-id,var-num); |
is the identifier that was assigned when the table was opened. If table-id is invalid, the program halts.
is the number of the column in the SAS table. This number is adjacent to the column in the list that is produced by the CONTENTS procedure. The VARNUM function returns this number.
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If no informat has been assigned to the column, a blank string is returned.
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Obtain the informat of the column NAME in the SAS table MYDATA:
length infmt $ 12; tableid=open('mydata','i'); if tableid then do; infmt=varinfmt(tableid,varnum(tableid,'name')); rc=close(tableid); end;
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