Date:         Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:33:20 -0700
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Subject:      What is difference in the two input statement ???
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I am doing simple Character to Numeric conversion like this ORAEXM1D_N
= input(ORAEXMD||ORAEXMM||ORAEXMY,date9.);When I doing this in the Log
I seen lot explation and few Note statements like this

NOTE: Invalid argument to function INPUT at line 2205 column 14.

MRKEVL1C=. OAS1D=30FEB2005 DNTEXM1C=. DNTSCO1C=. DNTSCO2C=. DNTSCO3C=.
DNTSCO4C=. DNTSCO5C=. DNTSCO6C=. XRY1D=  XRYRSL1C=. ORASRG2C=.
ORASRG2A=  ORASRG7C=. ORASRG8C=. SIT6A=  ORASRG9C=.
OAS2D=  SIT7A=  ORASRGBC=. OAS4D=  ORASYM1A=  DGNAVN1C=. CLNSYM4C=No
ADDPAG1C=. ORAEXM1D= EXMFND1C=. REC1N=. DNTEXM1A=  EXMFND2C=. XRYEXM1A=
 SIT1A=  ORASYM1C=. OAS1O=. OAS2O=. OAS4O=. XRY1O=. STUDY=NVR2352
INV=EDIT TEST PT=400140012 CPEVENT=SUMMARY QUALIFYV=103 SUBEVE=0
SUBSETSN=3 REPEATSN=1 VISIT=888 ACTEVENT=888.00
LOGINTS=17MAR06:08:02:05 ACCESSTS=17MAR06:08:02:05
TCHGTS=17MAR06:08:02:05 MRKEVL1C_C=  OAS1DD=30 OAS1DM=FEB OAS1DY=2005
DNTEXM1C_C=  DNTSCO1C_C= DNTSCO2C_C=  DNTSCO3C_C=  TSCO4C_C=
DNTSCO5C_C=  DNTSCO6C_C=  XRY1DD=  XRY1DM=  XRY1DY=
XRYRSL1C_C=  ORASRG2C_C=  ORASRG7C_C=  ORASRG8C_C=  ORASRG9C_C=
OAS2DD=  OAS2DM=  OAS2DY= ORASRGBC_C=  OAS4DD=  OAS4DM=  OAS4DY=
DGNAVN1C_C=  CLNSYM4C_C=0 ADDPAG1C_C=  ORAEXMD=31 ORAEXMM=SEP
ORAEXMY=2005 EXMFND1C_C=  EXMFND2C_C=  ORASYM1C_C=  PAG1A=103 CRF1A=AEV
CTR1N=4001 EXT1N=0 RPEPAG1N=. RPEVIS1N=. SBJ1N=40012 SID1A=4001_40012
STY1A=CLBH589B2102 STYSID1A=CLBH589B2102_4001_40012 TIMPNT1N=.
TIMPNT2N=. TIMPNT3N=. VIS1N=. VISNAM1A=  ORAEXM1D_N=.
_ERROR_=1 _N_=89

when I tried same conversion with

ORAEXM1D_N = input(ORAEXMD||ORAEXMM||ORAEXMY, ??date9.);

the Log is clear why is this difference.