topic Re: date in SAS Programming

date

kathisas — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 08:54:42 GMT

hey 🙂

please please help 🙂

I have got an excel file that I converted to a sas dataset.

put the date is shown as an characteristic variable and I need to convert this to a date variable.

I tried a lot and I am new with SAS and programming. I study medcine and need this for results. so please help me.

thanks a lot

ChrisBrooks — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 10:35:15 GMT

Can you post an example of what the dates look like please?

kathisas — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:25:24 GMT

thanks a lot for your quick answers.

but my problem is solved now.

since I deleted the points in my excel files sas read the variables as date 🙂

thanks a lot.

and for everyone no points in excel files for missing values. this can misinterpret sas variable reading!!

mkeintz — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 23:25:25 GMT

Then please mark your topic as solved.