https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590078#M14988 <P>What is the effect of the above error/warning as far as the rest of the data is concerned once this error is encountered?&nbsp; Does SAS stop processing the rest of the data or does it continue to process?&nbsp; I won't be concerned if it continues to process the rest of the data.&nbsp; Returning null is fine.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you!</P> Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:34:43 GMT jffeudo86 2019-09-19T15:34:43Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590078#M14988 <P>What is the effect of the above error/warning as far as the rest of the data is concerned once this error is encountered?&nbsp; Does SAS stop processing the rest of the data or does it continue to process?&nbsp; I won't be concerned if it continues to process the rest of the data.&nbsp; Returning null is fine.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thank you!</P> Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:34:43 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590078#M14988 jffeudo86 2019-09-19T15:34:43Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590079#M14989 <P>Is this an error or a warning? I seem to remember it is a warning.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>In that case, I believe that the missing value is returned, and the remainder of the data is processed. What happened when you tried it?</P> Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:37:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590079#M14989 PaigeMiller 2019-09-19T15:37:09Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590085#M14991 <P>I don't know as the data is large so I can't tell if it stopped or not.</P> Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:51:24 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590085#M14991 jffeudo86 2019-09-19T15:51:24Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590091#M14994 It continues to process and returns nulls. You can add an IFN() around it or IF/THEN to account for the missing values if the errors are problematic. I usually like to explicitly do this so I have a clean log. Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:08:14 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590091#M14994 Reeza 2019-09-19T16:08:14Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590149#M15000 Thank you! Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:23:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/New-SAS-User/Invalid-or-missing-arguments-to-the-DATEPART-function-have/m-p/590149#M15000 jffeudo86 2019-09-19T18:23:31Z