topic Re: read only date part from data set name in SAS Programming

read only date part from data set name

chirumalla — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 03:09:53 GMT

Hi,

I have 50+ data sets having different lengths with date extension, I want to read only date part from data sets and store in a variable for time stamp.

pls advise me how to read date part from data set name.

TEST_201312.sas7bdat

TEST__MONTH_201312.sas7bdat

TEST__YEAR_201312.sas7bdat

Re: read only date part from data set name

Patrick — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 07:33:10 GMT

USE scan() with delimiter _. and -2 as counter so extracting second last substring.

Re: read only date part from data set name

Jagadishkatam — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:30:04 GMT

Please try the below code

data TEST_201312;

test=1;

run;

data TEST__MONTH_201312;

test=1;

run;

data TEST__YEAR_201312;

test=1;

run;

proc sql;

create table tab as select memname, cats(put(input(substr(left((compress(memname,,'kd'))),5,2),best.),monname3.),substr(left((compress(memname,,'kd'))),1,4)) as month_year from dictionary.tables where upcase(memname) like "TEST%";

quit;

output:

Thanks,

Jag

Re: read only date part from data set name

data_null__ — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:16:37 GMT

Where do want the new variable to go? You seem to imply you want the new variable in each data set.