Multiple choice technology programming languages

What informat should be used to read the date variable in the flat file having the values like 02NOV2003?

  1. DATE9.

  2. MMDDYY8.

  3. MMDDYY10.

  4. none

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Explanation

The DATE9. informat is designed to read dates in the format DDMMMYYYY (two digits, three-letter month, four digits), which exactly matches '02NOV2003'. MMDDYY informats expect month-first formats with slashes, not the compact letter-based format shown.