topic Re: How to remove am pm from timestamp? in SAS Enterprise Guide

How to remove am pm from timestamp?

sugita — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:32:48 GMT

So I import a csv file where one column contains a timestamp data and I need to remove the AM/PM from 01/01/2012 13:13PM?

Please help me?

Thank you.

Re: How to remove am pm from timestamp?

Haikuo — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:04:10 GMT

Hi,

This could help with the conversion:

data have;

input dt $&20.;

dt=prxchange('s/AM|PM//',-1,dt);

cards;

01/01/2012 13:13PM

01/01/2012 10:13AM

;

proc print;run;

Haikuo

Re: How to remove am pm from timestamp?

Linlin — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:25:26 GMT

data have;

input dt $&20.;

cards;

01/01/2012 13:13PM

01/01/2012 10:13AM

;

data want;

set have;

dt=compress(dt,'PMAM');

proc print;run;

Obs dt

1 01/01/2012 13:13

2 01/01/2012 10:13

Re: How to remove am pm from timestamp?

Haikuo — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:50:45 GMT

Linlin,

Obviously your solution works in this context perfectly. However, on a side note:

1. 'P', 'A' and 'M' will be all be removed regardless their order and combinations, as compress() is letter based instead of string based.

2. By the same token, you only need to address 'M' one time: dt=compress(dt,'PMA');

Regards,

Haikuo

Re: How to remove am pm from timestamp?

Linlin — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:40:27 GMT

Thank you Haikuo! - Linlin

Re: How to remove am pm from timestamp?

data_null__ — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:56:45 GMT

1) I think the correct answer is: change the format.

Your question does not provided enough information about what you have. When you IMPORTED the field from CSV did you end up with SAS DATE TIME value? If so then see 1.

If not, you need to read the text field into a SAS DATE TIME variable and then see 1.