topic Re: Covert date text to number text in SAS Programming

Covert date text to number text

itshere — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:29:07 GMT

Hello -

I currently have 2016-01-01 in my data.. its format is text,20.

I want to join it with another table that i have and its format is 01JAN2016 00:00:00

How do I first convert the text DATE into number DATE and then in the correct format to join on this ^

I initially did Input(A.int_date, datetime20.) but it made all the rows blank.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

PGStats — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:41:19 GMT

Build a SAS datetime value with function DHMS

dt = dhms(input(A.int_date, yymmdd10.), 0, 0, 0);

format dt datetime20.;

itshere — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:48:57 GMT

I forgot to mention Im using PROC SQL

So i need something that is supported by that.

ballardw — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:24:55 GMT

dhms(input(A.int_date, yymmdd10.), 0, 0, 0) is supported by SAS Proc SQL.

You can us the value in a where clause as: Where dhms(input(A.int_date, yymmdd10.), 0, 0, 0) > <some datetime value>

join on dhms(input(A.int_date, yymmdd10.), 0, 0, 0) = b.datetimevariablename