Date:         Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:26:49 -0500
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
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From:         Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@BLUEYONDER.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: How to tell the datatype of a user-made format
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu [mailto:owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu]
>On Behalf Of Rune Runnestø
>>Sent: 2006, January, 27 11:09 AM
>>To: sas-l@uga.edu
>>Subject: How to tell the datatype of a user-made format
>>
>>If you want to reference a user-made format, you have to know whether it
>is a numeric or characher format. Character formats have to preceded with
$.
>>How can you tell if a format is a numeric or character ?
>>
>>Below I have made a numeric format MYDATE. But none of the two following
>procedures gives me information what datatype the format has.
>>
>>proc format;
>>      picture mydate
>>         low-high='%0d-%b-%Y  ' (datatype=date);
>>   run;
>>   proc format lib=work fmtlib;
>>   run;
>>   proc catalog cat = work.formats;
>>      contents;
>>   run;
>>   quit;
>>
>>Can anyone tell ?
>>
>>Regards, Rune
>>_______________________________________________________________________
>>
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could you use the format catalog entry objtype to indicate  format type

 format   numeric format
 formatc  chaacter format
 infmt    informat to numeric value
 infmtc   informat to character value