topic Re: Reading date values in SAS Programming

Reading date values

frupaul — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:40:32 GMT

Hi all,

I am working with data in SAS using SAS passthrough for oracle. The date that is pulled is in the format yyyymmdd (e.g 20181123) and is numeric. However, I cannot manipulate this using SAS functions (such as the INTCK function) because it is not in a valid sas format or numeric format. Can anyone advice me on how to work with this please? e.g assume you want to create DATEDIFFERENCE variable as in the data step below. How could one do this please?

data Required;

date1=20181123;

Datedifference = intck('day',date1,today();

run;

Thanks.

Re: Reading date values

RW9 — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:18:05 GMT

Use the code window - its the {i} above post:

data required;
  date1=20181123;
  datedifference = intck('day',input(put(date1,$8.),yymmdd8.),today());
run;

Re: Reading date values

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:36:25 GMT

Just a very small change:

data required;
  date1=20181123;
  datedifference = intck('day',input(put(date1,8.),yymmdd8.),today());
run;

Numeric format for numeric variable date1 in the put() function.

Re: Reading date values

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:53:25 GMT

Please mark @RW9's answer as solution, I just added a very small improvement.