topic Doing a CALC on two date fields and using DATEPART in SAS Programming

Doing a CALC on two date fields and using DATEPART

TMiller16 — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:01:17 GMT

I am getting (.) in my results, now I know this has something to do with the date and creating a numeric value.

How do I get rid of the (.)? I am using the SAS Plug in for excel and this is giving me fits when I go to use a Pivot.

I would rather if there is no value to just leave it blank.

here is the partial code:

AVG(DATEPART(S.On_Block_Dt) - DATEPART(S.Title_Rcvd_Dt)) AS Title_Received_to_On_Block,

AVG(DATEPART(S.Sale_Date) - DATEPART(S.Title_Rcvd_Dt)) AS Title_Received_to_Sold,

AVG(DATEPART(S.Title_Rcvd_Dt) - DATEPART(S.Secured_Dt)) AS Secured_to_Title_Received,

AVG(DATEPART(S.Assigned_Dt) - DATEPART(S.Grounding_Dt)) AS Grounded_to_Assigned,

I am using PROC SQL to do this.

Re: Doing a CALC on two date fields and using DATEPART

Reeza — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:05:17 GMT

Missing is a period for numerics, not a blank. Even if you add in conditional logic to not calculate the value, it would still be missing and a period.

Since you're doing an average or summarization I'm suprised you're ending up with missing, unless what happens is, if you have any value missing it's being set to missing. Or you're missing a lot of data.

Re: Doing a CALC on two date fields and using DATEPART

PGStats — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:53:18 GMT

Try using option missing=' '; before writing to Excel.