topic Date Format in SAS Programming

Date Format

WPH — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 09:22:58 GMT

Halo all,

I am quite new in SAS and I need your help.

Is anybody know how to change these date into DATE9 format in macro variable.

%LET date = %scan("$Date: 2018/02/07 08:50:51 $",2,': ');

%put &date.;

Thank you for your help

Re: Date Format

gamotte — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:02:30 GMT

Hello,

data _NULL_;
    dt=input("&date.",yymmdd10.);
    call symput("date",put(dt,date9.));
run;

Re: Date Format

RW9 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:06:54 GMT

Its not a good idea to put data into macro variables. Macro is nothing more than a text find and replace system, which will make your code longer and harder to maintain if you do not use it for its purpose. To do your request, you could have lots of messy macro code, or use Base SAS which is what should be used for data:

data _null_;
  call symput('date',put(input(scan('$Date: 2018/02/07 08:50:51 $',2,": "),yymmdd10.),date9.));
run;

%put &date.;

If your quite new to SAS then step 1 is learn Base SAS - which is the actually running language, then learn the additional text replacement service macro later.

Re: Date Format

Ksharp — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:27:42 GMT

%LET date = %sysfunc(inputn(%scan("$Date: 2018/02/07 08:50:51 $",2,%str( )),yymmdd10.),date9.);

%put &date.;