topic Re: Date Format in SAS Programming

Date Format

QLi — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:34:34 GMT

I want to run the following code:

data _null_;
a='August 24, 2010';
format b date9.;
b=input(a, worddate20.);
put a= b=; run;

It showed the message in the Log window:
NOTE 485-185: Informat WORDDATE was not found or could not be loaded.

Could you help me out this?

Thanks in Advance.

Re: Date Format

art297 — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:38:30 GMT

You need an informat rather than a format. You could use:
[pre]
data _null_;
a='August 24, 2010';
format b date9.;
b=input(a, anydtdte20.);
put a= b=; run;
[/pre]
HTH,
Art

Re: Date Format

QLi — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:48:22 GMT

It worked well.

Thank you very much.