topic Num to date monyy5. conversion in SAS Programming

Num to date monyy5. conversion

AJ_Brien — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:22:15 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to convert num to date format such that I can extract the month and year from it in the form of MONYY.

The code that I've written is working well, but in the log is a little messy. Would appreciate the suggestions for making my code better. Thank you!

Input dataset (the dates could be different):

20190819

Output dataset expected: wouldn't mid getting rid of the SBDTE column either

DTE	SBDTE	mon
20190819	21780	AUG19
20190819	21780	AUG19
20190819	21780	AUG19
20190819	21780	AUG19
20190819	21780	AUG19
20190819	21780	AUG19

Log:--the bigger my dataset, the log fills up with DTE= statements, which is what I would like to get rid of.

1014

1015 GOPTIONS ACCESSIBLE;

1016 data abc;

1017 set abc;

1018 SBDTE = Input( Put( DTE, 8.), Yymmdd10.);

1019 Put SBDTE = Date9.;

1020 mon=put(SBDTE, monyy5.);

1021 run;

DTE=19AUG2019

NOTE: There were 6 observations read from the data set WORK.ABC.

NOTE: The data set WORK.ABC has 6

observations and 3 variables.

NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):

real time 5.39 seconds

cpu time 0.01 seconds

My code: the formata nd informat for DTE is num 11. and length is 8.

data abc;
set abc;
SBDTE = Input( Put( DTE, 8.), Yymmdd10.);
Put SBDTE = Date9.;
mon=put(SBDTE, monyy5.);
run;

Re: Num to date monyy5. conversion

novinosrin — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:30:06 GMT

"Log:--the bigger my dataset, the log fills up with DTE= statements, which is what I would like to get rid of."

So you could get rid of

  Put SBDTE = Date9.;

Basically I am assuming you were using put statements while testing/debugging or to know what is assigned to SBDTE variable during each iteration of the datastep before the implicit return occurs , eventually writing the contents of the output buffer to the output dataset. In a production code, you don't need any of those. So removing the PUT statement will make sure your LOG is clean

Re: Num to date monyy5. conversion

AJ_Brien — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:30:10 GMT

ah, that was what was happening! thank you!