topic Re: Sas Date question in SAS Programming

Sas Date question

Bogusval — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 03:20:15 GMT

To check a sas date in an if condition I always go to a bookmarked site to look up the sas date.

Is there a way to use the actual date in a date varible?

For example instead of
If StartDate = 58251

I would like to say
If StartDate = 201801

Is there a way to do that9

Thank you for your help

Sas Date question

Bogusval — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 07:10:32 GMT

Double post deleted.

Re: Sas Date question

Bogusval — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 03:21:56 GMT

Re: Sas Date question

Astounding — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 03:26:29 GMT

You can refer to a specific day without knowing the numeric value on SAS's date scale. For example:

if datevar = '04Apr2018'd then do;

The date must be in quotes, must be in the format illustrated here, and must add a "d" after the closing quote.

Re: Sas Date question

SASKiwi — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 03:26:47 GMT

If StartDate = '01Jan2018'd

The "D" tells SAS to treat the string constant as a date.

Re: Sas Date question

Bogusval — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 03:28:45 GMT

Thank you very much! I will give that a try 🙂