topic how to convert numeric date variable into character date variable in SAS Programming

how to convert numeric date variable into character date variable

Aishwarya — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:23:35 GMT

Hi,

Need help please..

I am trying to convert numeric date variable into character date variable.

PROC SQL;

CREATE TABLE y AS

SELECT PUT(subjid, 6.) AS subjid,

PUT(date, 20.) AS date FORMAT = YYMMDD10.

FROM x;

QUIT;

423 PROC SQL;

424 CREATE TABLE y AS

425 SELECT PUT(subjid, 6.) AS subjid,

426 PUT(date, 20.) AS date FORMAT = date9.

427 FROM x;

ERROR: Character expression requires a character format.

428 QUIT;

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

both subjid and date are numeric variables and i want to convert into character variables for merging.

Are there any other ways of doing this conversion?

Thank you

Anu.

Re: how to convert numeric date variable into character date variable

DJChavda — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:42:29 GMT

Editor's note: Thanks to Aishwarya for showing how to use the PUT function to apply the YYMMDD10. format. Using the YYMMDD10. format along wtih the PUT function will convert the SAS date to a character string in the format of YYYY-MM-DD.

Hi Aishwarya,

For the conversion of numeric value to character value try the following code

PROC SQL;

  CREATE TABLE y AS

  SELECT PUT(x.subjid, 6.) AS subjid,

         PUT(x.date, YYMMDD10. ) AS date

  FROM x;

QUIT;

Now this column was converted into character so you can not applied numeric formate on that

Re: how to convert numeric date variable into character date variable

Aishwarya — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:21:50 GMT

Thank you

Re: how to convert numeric date variable into character date variable

DJChavda — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:26:51 GMT

Welcome

Re: how to convert numeric date variable into character date variable

gowthamgsas — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:33:41 GMT

Hi please try the below one....in the below example shows how to convert numeric date values to character ones..

data dates;
informat A date9.;
input A;
cards;
13/APR/1999
01/JAN/1960
31/JAN/1960
;
run;

data converted;
set dates;
dates_char = put(a,date9.);
run;

Re: how to convert numeric date variable into character date variable

niespolo — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:36:27 GMT

Hi,

how is it possible to convert a numeric date field into character value using an expression in SAS Data Integration Studio?

Thanks in advance.