topic Re: string date to normal date in SAS Programming

string date to normal date

pokepim — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:19:20 GMT

I have a column in my tables that has observations like this:

Date

200601

200602

200603

...

I want to convert them into a date format that can be used in proc forecast procedure ( so like 1JAN2006, 1FEB2006 etc.) How can i do that?

Re: string date to normal date

Reeza — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:23:03 GMT

INPUT()

Informat -> YYMMN6

@pokepim wrote:

I have a column in my tables that has observations like this:

Date

200601

200602

200603

...

I want to convert them into a date format that can be used in proc forecast procedure ( so like 1JAN2006, 1FEB2006 etc.) How can i do that?

Re: string date to normal date

pokepim — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:44:33 GMT

So i tried this

data new ;
set wej.vintage_css_3; /* the dataset that ahs the column */
newdate=input(fin_period,YYMMN6.) /*fin_period is that one with the dates to changfe */
run;

but it does not work 😕 it says its a syntax error

Re: string date to normal date

Reeza — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:05:23 GMT

Post the log.