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SAS 9.4 Language Reference, Second Edition
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SAS 9.4 Language Reference, Second Edition

by SAS Institute
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
824 pages
24h 21m
English
SAS Institute
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For complete descriptions of all SAS formats and informats, including how numeric
binary data is written, see SAS Formats and Informats: Reference.
Reading Column-Binary Data
Definition
column-binary data storage
is an older form of data storage that is no longer widely used and is not needed by
most SAS users. Column-binary data storage compresses data so that more than 80
items of data can be stored on a single “virtual” punched card. The advantage is that
this method enables you to store more data in the same amount of space. Because
card-image data sets remain in existence, SAS provides informats for reading
column-binary data. See “Description ...
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