topic Re: Date Formats in SAS Enterprise Guide

Date Formats

SMorrison07 — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 01:57:29 GMT

Does anyone know how I can convert a character date format such as OCT to read as a new numeric data varialbe such as 10.

Thank you

Re: Date Formats

Haikuo — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:09:06 GMT

data test;

input mon $;

NUM_MONTH=MONTH(INPUT(CATS('01',MON,'1960'),DATE9.));

PUT MON= NUM_MONTH=;

cards;

OCT

MAR

FEB

JAN

DEC

MAY

;

Re: Date Formats

Jagadishkatam — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:12:24 GMT

i believe there is no informat to convert only the month to numeric, there are functions which can pull the month from the date, but to read only month to numeric i am not sure.

alternativly we can do the following, we can assign the informat by proc format to the month and asign the values, and then use the informat.

proc format fmtlib;

invalue mon "JAN"=1

"FEB"=2

"MAR"=3

"APR"=4

"MAY"=5

"JUN"=6

"JUL"=7

"AUG"=8

"SEP"=9

"OCT"=10

"NOV"=11

"DEC"=12;

run;

data have;

input month$;

cards;

OCT

;

run;

data have_;

set have;

new=input(month,MON.);

run;

Appreciate if anyone can suggest me the informat or format which can convert only the month to numeric values

Thanks,

Jagadish

Re: Date Formats

SMorrison07 — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:23:41 GMT

thanks for the help. Much appreciated

Re: Date Formats

ballardw — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:06:21 GMT

You don't need two passes. Try

data have;

input month :Mon.;

cards;

OCT

;

run;