topic Re: if balnk then add system date in SAS Programming

if blank then add system date

ashishj816 — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:27:58 GMT

wherever there is blank date i wnat to put today's system date

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 31 May 2016 09:47:50 GMT

if datefield = . then datefield = date();

ashishj816 — Tue, 31 May 2016 09:50:01 GMT

but It gives me sas date

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:15:27 GMT

Of course, as intended. Dates are dates, and the SAS DATE function returns the current date as supplied by the operating system.

Reeza — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:29:36 GMT

Since you say blank I'm going to assume you have a character value? Or is it numeric?

And if character what format is applied, ie how does it look 01Jan2016 or 01/01/2016?