https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deidetifying-the-dates/m-p/835999#M330546 <P>Hardly possible to understand what you want. Please explain "Deidetifying" / "decidentify", show the expected result and explain what you want to achieve.</P> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:01:48 GMT andreas_lds 2022-09-30T06:01:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deidetifying-the-dates/m-p/835986#M330537 Hi,<BR />I want to decidentify the dates which is mm/dd/yyyy format.<BR />Example:<BR />07/29/1980<BR />09/27/2008<BR />06/23/2003<BR />01/25/2006<BR /><BR />And also want to retrieve the original dates when needed in future.<BR /><BR />Thanks in advance. Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:15:56 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deidetifying-the-dates/m-p/835986#M330537 Smitha9 2022-09-30T02:15:56Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deidetifying-the-dates/m-p/835987#M330538 <P>What do you mean by "de-indentify"? Setting the dates to missing will remove any means of identification for example. Keeping the original dataset will retain the data for future use.</P> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:50:44 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deidetifying-the-dates/m-p/835987#M330538 SASKiwi 2022-09-30T02:50:44Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deidetifying-the-dates/m-p/835999#M330546 <P>Hardly possible to understand what you want. Please explain "Deidetifying" / "decidentify", show the expected result and explain what you want to achieve.</P> Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:01:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Deidetifying-the-dates/m-p/835999#M330546 andreas_lds 2022-09-30T06:01:48Z