topic Re: Date Imports into SAS from Excel in SAS Programming

Date Imports into SAS from Excel

sg_kr — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:30:18 GMT

HI,

i am using the below code to import the excel file with date.

proc import file="&FM.\01Source\IMG YTD &IDBYear..xlsx"
OUT=EQ (keep=A--I)
DBMS=XLSX REPLACE;
SHEET="&IDBYear. - YTD";
GETNAMES=NO;
MIXED=NO;
SCANTEXT=YES;
USEDATE=YES;
SCANTIME=YES;
run;

data rwork.EQ (drop=A--I);
set EQ;

/*Delete unwanted columns*/
if B="" then delete;
if C="" then delete;
if upcase(C) in ("MARKET","") then delete;

format TRANSdate mmddyy10.;
format old_polno $13.;
format MARKET $10.;
format clientnme $50.;
format transamt dollar10.2;
format new_polno $13.;

TRANSdate = input(compress(A), mmddyy10.);
old_polno = input(compress(B), $13.);
market = input(compress(C), $10.);
clientnme = input(compress(D), $50.);
transamt = input(compress(E), dollar10.2);
new_polno = input(compress(I), $13.);

if transamt in (0, .) then delete;
if new_polno in (0, .) then delete;
run;

after importing through proc import, its showing as number like sas Days format

imported Excel Format:

1/11/2019

1/15/2019

1/16/2019

1/17/2019

1/22/2019

1/24/2019

1/30/2019

but when i look into the EQ dataset(second datastep) its showing null(attached screenshot)

please help me on this.

thanks

Re: Date Imports into SAS from Excel

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:58:02 GMT

The usual message for fixing all your woes:

save the data to csv, and read it with a custom data step where you have total control over variable names, attributes and how the content is read. In one step.

The Excel file format is useless for data transfer.

Re: Date Imports into SAS from Excel

tomrvincent — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:11:17 GMT

Excel works just fine.

I find that if I bring in a date as text I can then validate it and convert it. So bring transdate in as $10. and then use these examples:

case when Date_Received is not missing and input(Date_Received,best10.) is missing then 'bad received date' else 'clean' end as invalid5,

/* convert from excel date to SAS date */
input(Date_Received,best10.)-21916 as Received_Dt format date9.,

Re: Date Imports into SAS from Excel

ballardw — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:42:01 GMT

Your attachment doesn't appear (yet).

The SAS DELETE as you are using it removes entire rows, not columns. Perhaps that is the issue.

But better would be to read a CSV with more control than to "fix" things caused by the limited guessing ability of Proc Import as @Kurt_Bremser suggests.