topic Re: Separate numbers with slash in SAS Programming

Separate numbers with slash

india2016 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:27:50 GMT

Hi,

I have a csv file which has a date variable with values like 160911, 151111.

I want to separate this date with either slash or hyphen like 16/09/11 and 15/11/11.

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:35:55 GMT

What is the sequence? YYMMDD, DDMMYY or MMDDYY?

FredrikE — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:37:00 GMT

Very little information of what you really want to do 🙂

Do you want to read the file into sas and convert the date, do you want to change the file i.e write back the converted date.

Why do you want to insert / into the date?

Anyhow, this little step adds / to the new variable outdate by reading the variable indate 🙂

data test;

length indate $6 outdate $8;

input indate;

outdate = cats(substr(indate,1,2),'/',substr(indate,3,2),'/',substr(indate,5,2));

datalines;

160911

151111

;

run;

Fredrik

india2016 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:39:37 GMT

sequence is ddmmyy

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:41:15 GMT

Then do this:

data want;
input datevar ddmmyy6.;
format datevar ddmmyys8.;
cards;
160911
151111
;
run;

india2016 — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:00:24 GMT

Thanks it worked.