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Pyrite | Level 9

I have data of the following form: 

period some_random_number
202203 100
202204 222

 

where the period has the type: character with length 9.

and I would like to convert it to date9. so that 202203 is converted to 01MAR2022 and 202204 to 01APR2022.

 

Any suggestions are much appreciated. 

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
data want;
    set have;
    new_period=input(period,yymmn6.);
    format new_period date9.;
run;
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Paige Miller
Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

Use INPUT() to make a new numeric variable with date values.  The YYMMN informat will recognize those strings.

date=input(period,yymmn6.);
format date date9.;

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