Date:         Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:24:26 -0600
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From:         "data _null_," <datanull@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Failure to recognize formats
Comments: To: Paul <paulvonhippel@yahoo.com>
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Could it be that the variables are now character when before they were
numeric.  Has the data change?  Can you show log snippet?

On Nov 26, 2007 6:15 PM, Paul <paulvonhippel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Running code that worked not long ago, I'm getting odd error messages
> indicating that SAS doesn't recognize basic formats like DATE9. or Z4.
>
> What's going on? Is there some setting I should check to figure out
> why SAS isn't recognizing these formats?
>
> Many thanks for any suggestions,
> Paul von Hippel
>