topic Formatting a date in an output file. in SAS Programming

Formatting a date in an output file.

TylerB — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:17:58 GMT

I have a date field that looks like this:

DATA _NULL _;

DT = TODAY();

FORMAT DT YYMMDDD10.;

The Date is 2012-02-23.

How do I write that to a flat file so that my field looks like that?

Trying to do:

FILE OUTFILE;

PUT

@001 DT $10.

@011 ID 10.

But I don't quite have it.

Thanks,

Tyler

art297 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:27:26 GMT

Is this what you are looking for?:

DATA have;

CREATEDATE = put(TODAY(),YYMMDD10.);

id=1;

run;

data _null_;

set have;

FILE "c:\art\wantfile.txt";

PUT @001 CREATEDATE $10. @;

put @011 ID 10.;

run;

TylerB — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:51:19 GMT

Thanks for the help, that did the trick!

Tyler

CREATEDATE = put(TODAY(),YYMMDD10.);

PUT @001 CREATEDATE $10.

;

Text file looks like this: 2012-02-23