topic Re: how to create a dataset from systemdate in SAS Programming

how to create a dataset from systemdate

arpit — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:14:26 GMT

System date is 03/03/2011

I want to create a dataset like A
DATE
02-03-2011
01-03-2011
28-02-2011
27-02-2011
26-02-2011
25-02-2011

Kindly help me

Re: how to create a dataset from systemdate

ieva — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:38:49 GMT

Hi,

Try this:

%macro datelist;
data date_list (keep=date);
sysdate=%sysfunc(date());
format date date9.;
%do i=1 %to 6;
date=sysdate-&i;
output;
%end;
run;
%mend;
%datelist;

Re: how to create a dataset from systemdate

arpit — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:06:40 GMT

how to convert it into checracter data type

Re: how to create a dataset from systemdate

Ksharp — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:07:24 GMT

[pre]
data A;
do i=1 to 10;
date=today() - i;
output;
end;
format date ddmmyyd10.;
drop i;
run;
[/pre]

Ksharp

Re: how to create a dataset from systemdate

ieva — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:01:06 GMT

Usin Ksharp's code which is more simple to get character value:

data A;
do i=1 to 10;
date=put(put(today() - i, ddmmyyd10.), $10.);
output;
end;
drop i;
run;

Re: how to create a dataset from systemdate

arpit — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:25:18 GMT

Thanks a lot ieva and Ksharp for ur kind information