topic date formats in SAS Programming

date formats

GreggB — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:50:33 GMT

my data looks like:

DOB

08/13/2003

what I want:

month day year

Aug 13 03

This is to help students with bubbling an answer document.

Re: date formats

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:54:19 GMT

If it's a SAS date, use the day(), month() and year() functions.

If it's not a SAS date, create one first with the input() function.

Re: date formats

Reeza — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:55:27 GMT

Assuming it's a SAS date, use YEAR(), MONTH(), DAY() to extract the components needed. If it's not a SAS date, first convert it with INPUT(varName, mmddyy10.)

@GreggB wrote:

my data looks like:

DOB

08/13/2003

what I want:

month day year

Aug 13 03

This is to help students with bubbling an answer document.