topic Re: date in SAS Programming

date

margi123 — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:08:28 GMT

Q )the following program submitted

data work.DATA_INFO;
X="01JAN1960"D;
Run;

What will be the value of X?

A.the numeric value 0
B.the character value "01jan1960"
C.the date value 01011960
D.code contains a syntax error

What is the answer and explain how it comes?

Re: date

art297 — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:24:50 GMT

Answer A. 01jan1960 is the value 0. 02jan1960 is 1, 03jan1960 is 2, etc.

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Re: date

ballardw — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:25:07 GMT

Did you run the code an examine the data set?

Look up SAS Date values. This a key bit of knowledge to work with SAS and dates.

Re: date

jemayo — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:27:08 GMT

SAS calculates dates as the number of days since January 1, 1960. Here, the date is exactly January 1, 1960, which is 0 days. So the answer to this question is 0.

Hope this explanation makes sense!