SAS Certified Professional Prep Guide

Scenario 2

Code Solution

Note: On the live exam, you will be evaluated both on the results of your code and the code itself. Your code should be similar to the following example code, but does not need to match exactly:

proc format;
   picture monthfmt 1-12='99'                    /*1*/
           other        ='Not a valid month';    /*2*/
run;
proc print data=certadv.monsal;
   format month monthfmt.;                       /*3*/
run;

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The PICTURE statement creates a template called Monthfmt in which it specifies that characters in a range of 1 through 12 are numeric. Using digit selectors (99) specifies the positions for the numeric values. Using a digit selector of 1 through 9 guarantees a leading zero for the month values of 1 through 9. If a digit selector of 0 is used, then there are no leading ...