topic How to cut out a part of text in SAS Programming

How to cut out a part of text

PatrykSAS — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:41:44 GMT

Hello,

I've a text variable that looks like this:

period

2019-01-01T15:00:00.0/2019-01-01T16:00:00.0

2019-01-01T16:00:00.0/2019-01-01T17:00:00.0

but I'd like to exclude first part of this text to the 2 new vars (date in yymmdd10. format and hour as intg) like bellow:

period	date	hour
2019-01-01T15:00:00.0/2019-01-01T16:00:00.0	2019-01-01	15
2019-01-01T16:00:00.0/2019-01-01T17:00:00.0	2019-01-01	16

How can I achieve this one?

Re: How to cut out a part of text

PatrykSAS — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:54:14 GMT

Ok, I've done simple substr and it works

input(substr(t1.__Observation_period,1,10),yymmdd10.)

Re: How to cut out a part of text

ballardw — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:13:30 GMT

The E8601DTw.d informat will read those values into a single datetime variable as well if of interest.

You might also test what happens without the Substr and just use

input(t1.__Observation_period,yymmdd10.)

The length on an informat controls how many characters are read. This is "nice" data where the first 10 characters are in a common layout, no 1 digit month or day of month values.