topic Re: date format in SAS Programming

date format

buddha_d — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 01:45:20 GMT

Does anyone know what kind of date format is this?

index(issued_date,'F8'x) ^= 0 or

index(issued_date,'E4'x) ^= 0

Thanks in advance

SASKiwi — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:22:26 GMT

The INDEX function only applies to character variables so it is anyone's guess what might type of date might be stored in it. Have you looked?

buddha_d — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:38:46 GMT

No, but you are correct.

buddha_d — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:39:19 GMT

No, but you are correct.

ChrisNZ — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:42:10 GMT

You are scanning a string for two characters.

Depending on the encoding, E4 is probably ä (latin small letter a with diaeresis)

buddha_d — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 02:51:11 GMT

thanks