topic Re: problem with date format in SAS studio in SAS Programming

problem with date format in SAS studio

jepafob — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 07:36:21 GMT

solved

Re: problem with date format in SAS studio

Shmuel — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:19:50 GMT

You have not supplied a sample data nor expected results.

You can remove first step and try next code:

proc sql;
  create table reportsummary as 
  select reportName, 
         count(key_num_acct) as reports_vol 
  from permdata.reportreferrals
  where reportDT = today() - 2. 
  group by reportName;
quit;

Re: problem with date format in SAS studio

PaigeMiller — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:30:43 GMT

Macro variables SHOULD NOT be formatted.

data _null_;
    call symput('today',intnx('day',today(),-2));
run;

But @Shmuel has a simpler approach.

Re: problem with date format in SAS studio

Tom — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:59:55 GMT

Why would you want to compare REPORTDT to a number that is less than 1 thousandths?

625   data test;
626     x=31/07/2020 ;
627     put x=;
628   run;

x=0.0021923621

Isn't REPORTDT a DATE variable? Wouldn't you want to compare it to another date value? The date value for 31JUL2020 is 22127.

Either set the macro variable to the number of days.

call symputX('today',today()-2);

Or set it to a string that the DATE informat can recognize and use it make a date literal in your later code.

call symputX('today',put(today()-2,date9.));
...
where reportDT = "&today"d

Re: problem with date format in SAS studio

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:31:05 GMT

Maxim 28.