https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Data-type-for-date/m-p/27899#M5148 The Main data set (A) has date as Character.I need to append another dataset (B) to the main dataset.The date in (B) has to be changed to mmddyy10. format,and i had to use anydtdte informat. So the data type for this date is numeric.When I try to append these two datasets, i'm having an issue due to data type mismtach.How to resolve this issue? Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:54:32 GMT SASPhile 2009-12-09T15:54:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Data-type-for-date/m-p/27899#M5148 The Main data set (A) has date as Character.I need to append another dataset (B) to the main dataset.The date in (B) has to be changed to mmddyy10. format,and i had to use anydtdte informat. So the data type for this date is numeric.When I try to append these two datasets, i'm having an issue due to data type mismtach.How to resolve this issue? Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:54:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Data-type-for-date/m-p/27899#M5148 SASPhile 2009-12-09T15:54:32Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Data-type-for-date/m-p/27900#M5149 Either change the date in dataset B to be a character string (using the PUT function) or change the date in dataset A to be numeric (using the INPUT function).<BR /> <BR /> cynthia Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:14:40 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Data-type-for-date/m-p/27900#M5149 Cynthia_sas 2009-12-09T16:14:40Z