topic Re: Please let me know value/outcome in SAS Programming

Please let me know value/outcome

sasbasls — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:20:33 GMT

Please confirm on the output of below function -

covdate = input(hire_date,yymmdd10.) + 360

if hire_date is 20010901. Will this output sas date ?

thanks,

latha

chang_y_chung_hotmail_com — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:29:21 GMT

covdate = input(hire_date,yymmdd10.) + 360
if hire_date is 20010901. Will this output sas date ?

Yes

Reeza — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:31:30 GMT

Why not try it?

data test;

hire_date='20090901';

cov_date=input(hire_date, yymmdd10.)+360;
format cov_date date9.;

run;

proc print;

run;

Output from sas window.

Obs date cov_date

1 20090901 27AUG2010