topic SAS Date code in SAS Programming

SAS Date code

Yogi1 — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:06:18 GMT

I am unable to get the proper output. My data is in csv format ....

options yearcutoff=1920 pagesize=60 linesize=80 pageno=1;
libname vicone '/folders/myfolders/';
data vicone.tourdates;
length City $ 11 ;
infile '/folders/myfolders/Working with dates/tourdates.csv' dlm=',' dsd firstobs=2;
input City $ DepartureDate date11. Nights;
run;
proc print data=vicone.tourdates;
title 'Tour Departure Dates as SAS Date Values';
run;

please help me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: SAS Date code

kannand — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 22:39:37 GMT

Hello - Please try this.....

proc import datafile="/folders/myfolders/data/tourdates"
out=work.in1
DBMS=xlsx
;
run;
proc print data=work.in1;

printed this o/p

Obs	Country	DepartureDate	Nights
1	New Zealand	03FEB2001	16
2	japan	13MAY2000	8
3	Greece	17OCT1999	12
4	Brazil	28FEB2001	8
5	Venezuela	10NOV2000	9
6	Italy	25APR2001	8
7	Russia	03JUN1997	14
8	Switzerland	14JAN2001	9
9	Austarlia	24OCT1998	12
10	Ireland	27AUG2000	7

Hope this helps. Good luck...!!!

Re: SAS Date code

RW9 — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 08:17:46 GMT

You are using CSV engine in your code, however the file is XLSX. As a recommendation, due to Excel being unstructured and unsuitable as a data capture or transfer format, I would suggest that you first save the data to CSV - do this by going to File->SaveAs, and choose CSV from the file options (or better yet, get the author of the data to use a proper system in the first place). AS you are going from Excel to another format, you will then need to check the data is correct, Excel can have different formats, types, special characters etc. in each cell (hence why it is not a good format). Once the data is in a proper data transfer format then its simply a matter of writing a datastep import program (not proc import which is a guessing function - you know your data, you specify it):

data want;

infile "...your_file.csv" dlm=",";

informat ....;

format ...;

length ...;

label ...;

input ...;

run;

Re: SAS Date code

kannand — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:23:16 GMT

Great insight. Thanks for your input RW9

Re: SAS Date code

Yogi1 — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:50:39 GMT

Thankyou So much.