topic PRINTING "1" OR "0" WHEN DATE MATCHES in SAS Programming

PRINTING "1" OR "0" WHEN DATE MATCHES

KatiaBravo — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 18:05:58 GMT

Hello everyone, I am new to SAS and I am experiencing a lot of troubles these days, hope you guys can help me out please!! 😄

So I have two tables;

1. Employees' vacations info and

2. Contains the headers for each day of the month.

First I need to merge both tables so that I have the info of employees and right next to that I have the headers of every single day of the month, then I need to fill each column of the days with "0" or "1" depending if that exact date matches the range of the vacation.

Eg.

I tried with arrays but for some reason I keep getting errors, so I tried creating a variable that contains all days of the month and iterate it somehow, I just can´t find how to do that.

/*VARIABLE THAT CONTAINS ALL DAYS OF THE MONTH*/

%let fromDate = 01JUN2021; %let toDate = 30JUN2021; data want; length key 8;
do date = "&fromDate"d to "&toDate"d;

key + 1; workday = ( 2 <= weekday(date) <= 6);
output; end; format date date9. ; run;

THANKS A TON!!

Re: PRINTING "1" OR "0" WHEN DATE MATCHES

tarheel13 — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 21:54:23 GMT

Can you post the errors in the log you got when trying arrays and maybe post the code as well?

Re: PRINTING "1" OR "0" WHEN DATE MATCHES

ChrisNZ — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:08:04 GMT

Like this?

data WANT; 
  START_DTE='05JUN2021'd;
  END_DTE  ='07JUN2021'd;
  array D[%sysevalf("&fromdate"d):%sysevalf("&todate"d)]
     %macro loop; %local i; %do i=%sysevalf("&fromdate"d) %to %sysevalf("&todate"d); 
       V_%sysfunc(putn(&i.,date9.))      
     %end;; %mend; %loop 
  do DATE="&fromdate"d to "&todate"d;
    D[DATE]=(START_DTE<=DATE<=END_DTE);
 end;
run;

V_01JUN2021	V_02JUN2021	V_03JUN2021	V_04JUN2021	V_05JUN2021	V_06JUN2021	V_07JUN2021	V_08JUN2021	V_09JUN2021	V_10JUN2021	V_11JUN2021	V_12JUN2021	V_13JUN2021	V_14JUN2021	V_15JUN2021	V_16JUN2021	V_17JUN2021	V_18JUN2021
0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Re: PRINTING "1" OR "0" WHEN DATE MATCHES

KatiaBravo — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 15:52:04 GMT

OMG I am in shock!!!!!! This code works exactly the way I needed it to work!!!!

WOOOOOW... :') you did in 1 day what I was trying to do for 1 week!!! 😄

THANKS A LOOOOT FOR REAL!!!!! ❤️

Re: PRINTING "1" OR "0" WHEN DATE MATCHES

ChrisNZ — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 02:14:33 GMT

Glad you find this useful. Thankfully it didn't take me a day lol.

Keep practicing and reading and you'll be able to easily do this too. 🙂