https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546040#M151147 <P>And to get rid of erroneously inserted blanks, use the compress() function.</P> Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:22:06 GMT Kurt_Bremser 2019-03-26T07:22:06Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546036#M151145 How can i read date variable having different lengths<BR />Like 1/01/1991<BR />01/02/1992<BR />02/03/ 1995<BR />8/08/2000<BR />I have tried anydtdte. Bt it only reads the one having single digit for day . If i use mmddyy10. then it will reads only the one having 2 digits for day.<BR />Someone please help.<BR />Thank you. Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:05:15 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546036#M151145 AKHILA 2019-03-26T07:05:15Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546038#M151146 <P><a href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/234880">@AKHILA</a>&nbsp;</P> <P>Works for me.</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">data have; infile datalines truncover; input dates :mmddyy10.; format dates date9.; datalines; 1/01/1991 01/02/1992 02/03/1995 8/08/2000 ; run; proc print data=have; run; </CODE></PRE> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Capture.JPG" style="width: 123px;"><img src="https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28205iFB3C0FF5C5AF3757/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Capture.JPG" alt="Capture.JPG" /></span></P> Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:17:05 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546038#M151146 Patrick 2019-03-26T07:17:05Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546040#M151147 <P>And to get rid of erroneously inserted blanks, use the compress() function.</P> Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:22:06 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546040#M151147 Kurt_Bremser 2019-03-26T07:22:06Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546044#M151149 Thank you <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:52:40 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Reading-dates-with-different-lengths/m-p/546044#M151149 AKHILA 2019-03-26T07:52:40Z