SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (80) |SAS Training

By admin | September 25, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (80)

The following SAS program is submitted:

data work.month;
    date = input('13mar2000',date9.);
run;

Which one of the following represents the type and length of the variable DATE in the output data set?

A. numeric, 8 bytes
B. numeric, 9 bytes
C. character, 8 bytes
D. character, 9 bytes

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admin - 09/25/2009 at 3:26 pm
A
sowmya - 12/21/2010 at 8:19 pm
Initially I had difficulty in understanding this question and the answer but now Iam fine….
shilpa - 10/4/2011 at 5:58 pm
Can some plz explain this.
Crystal - 07/30/2012 at 5:16 pm
The output 14682. For numerical number, the default length is 8. So the answer is A.