topic Re: DATE AND TIME in SAS Programming

DATE AND TIME

Di_Pat — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:02:56 GMT

I have an urgent situation. I am trying to export excel file into current date and current time.

Will be generating two files each day and final output needs to be like below.

File should be named as such [mmddyyyyhhmmss]_ABC

Please help urgently. Thank you.

Re: DATE AND TIME

TheShark — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:23:34 GMT

Create a timestamp!

proc format;
  picture myfmt low-high = '%Y%0m%0d_%0H%0M%0S' (datatype = datetime) ;
run ;

%let timestamp=%sysfunc(datetime(), myfmt.);

Re: DATE AND TIME

Di_Pat — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:55:24 GMT

marco variable is created but proc export part is not working

data _null_ ;
format dt mmddyy10. tm time. ;
dt = today() ;
tm = timepart(datetime()) ;
charval = compress(put(dt,mmddyy10.)||put(tm,time.), ":/") ;
call symput("dateval",charval) ;
run;

%put &dateval ;

proc export data= abc
outfile='C:\Users\mno\New folder\&dateval..xlsx'
dbms = xlsx replace ; putnames=no;
run;

final output is generated with name as "&dateval.xlsx"

no error in log.

Re: DATE AND TIME

Di_Pat — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 21:18:27 GMT

Thank you. This works in proc export. There was a typo in my datastep. Thank you.

Re: DATE AND TIME

TheShark — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 12:45:59 GMT

No problem, nice work!