topic Re: Splitting a hh:mm variable (numeric) in two variables hh and mm in SAS Programming

Splitting a hh:mm variable (numeric) in two variables hh and mm

gabyelle — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 06:34:16 GMT

Hoping to get some help with this as I have spent hours searching to no avail!

I have a numerical variable as hh:mm of the type 08:30 (time 5.) and would like to split into two num variables hh and mm so that I can do some recoding.

How does one do that? I have found out about splitting DD/MM/YY:hh:mm but that is not my case as dates are separate.

Hope you can help - thanks so much everyone for reading!

Re: Splitting a hh:mm variable (numeric) in two variables hh and mm

Jagadishkatam — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 07:01:46 GMT

Try the hour and minute functions as below

data want;
set have;
hour=hour(time);
minutes=minute(time);
run;

Re: Splitting a hh:mm variable (numeric) in two variables hh and mm

ballardw — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:40:01 GMT

It might be better to describe (i.e. show a few examples of) the sort of recoding you need. It may be that you do not need two additional variables at all.

Re: Splitting a hh:mm variable (numeric) in two variables hh and mm

gabyelle — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 04:25:32 GMT

Thanks so much - worked perfectly!