topic Re: How to Read Date & Time in "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM" format in SAS Programming

How to Read Date & Time in "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM" format

Picketoaks — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:36:38 GMT

data mydata;
  INFILE mysource dsd missover;
  input name : $50.
		database : $50.
		server : $75.
		title : $50.
		datetime ???
		;

I am a bit stumped trying to find an informat to read in the datetime. The data is in a comma delimited file and the date time is written within quotes as such: "04/06/2016 01:06:08 PM" or "11/24/2015 02:00:48 AM". I did not try column input as the above works for the rest of the data being read and seems simple.

Of course, I've been getting invalid data with everything I tried and your help will be appreciated.

Thank you.

Re: How to Read Date & Time in "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM" format

Reeza — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:46:48 GMT

There are two catch all date/datetime informats that are good to know

ANYDTDTE (date)

ANYDTDTM (datetime)

Re: How to Read Date & Time in "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM" format

Picketoaks — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:33:44 GMT

That seemed to work per below. I tested it with format datetime datetime24. Thank you.

data mydata;
  *INFILE mysource dlm=',' missover;
  INFILE mysource dsd missover;
  informat datetime anydtdtm.;
  input name : $50.
		database : $50.
		server : $75.
		title : $50.
		datetime
		;