topic Re: Write today's date in character format in SAS Enterprise Guide

Write today's date in character format

Lupacante — Wed, 07 May 2014 13:21:08 GMT

Hi all,

I am aware of the function today() which returns today's date. UnIess format it with date9., this is impossible to read.

Once I have formatted it as date9., is there a way to make it character, so it will read "07MAY2014"?

Thanks,

Marco

RW9 — Wed, 07 May 2014 13:26:48 GMT

Well, I use it in footnotes as: %sysfunc(date(),date9.)

I assume, though not tried it that: put(date(),date9.)

Would also work.

stat_sas — Wed, 07 May 2014 13:41:49 GMT

How about this

data have;

dt=today();

format dt date9.;

chardate=quote(put(dt,date9.));

run;

proc print;

run;