Featured in: Creating a Format for Character Values. See also: The chapter on formats in SAS Language Reference ... enclose the format name in square brackets, for example, [date9.] or with ...

Statistical Analysis System, also known as SAS ... indicates a character variable and declaration such as "mmddyy" indicates a data variable. How to Convert CSV to Metastock Format.

Use the PUT function with a SAS format to convert numeric values to character values. For an example of a numeric-to-character conversion, see the PUT function in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.