Date:         Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:28:02 +1100
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From:         Philip_Crane@WORKCOVER.VIC.GOV.AU
Subject:      Re: Formats: standard SAS or user-defined?
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Jerry

No personal experience but you could try looking for an entry in one of the
dictionary tables.

Philip



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                      04/03/2003 12:30
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                      Please respond to
                      Jerry






Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to programmatically
distinguish between a user-defined format and a standard SAS format?

The SCL functions FORMAT and INFORMAT determine if a given in/format
is known to the current SAS session, but is there an easy way to say
if its a user-defined one?  I can only think of hard ways.

Thanks,

Jerry


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