topic Re: Recoding a four-digit number into date format in SAS Enterprise Guide

Recoding a four-digit number into date format

Luke_Wiebolt — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:00:41 GMT

We have a column of dates in a four digit number format currently (9501). We need this recoded to display something resembeling: Jan,1995 but we can't figure out the function or expression to do so. Any suggestions?? Thanks!! version 7.1

Re: Recoding a four-digit number into date format

Luke_Wiebolt — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:28:27 GMT

PLEASE HELP!!!

Re: Recoding a four-digit number into date format

ballardw — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:30:33 GMT

Recommend making and actual date valued variable. Is that value supposed to be YYMM (year and month?) If so do have ANY years with values less than 20 that would indicate 1915 instead of 2015? If so how do you tell the actual year?

data junk;
   date= 9501;
   SASdate= mdy( mod(date,100),1,int(date/100));
   Format sasdate MONYY7.;
run;

proc print; run;

Re: Recoding a four-digit number into date format

Luke_Wiebolt — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:56:23 GMT

Thank you very much! This worked just as we hoped, perfect!

Re: Recoding a four-digit number into date format

PGStats — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 03:16:40 GMT

Please mark the solution as Accepted.

Re: Recoding a four-digit number into date format

Patrick — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 05:55:17 GMT

Alternatively there is also an informat which can read such strings.

data sample;
  have=9501;
  want=input(put(have,4.),yymmn4.);
  format want monyy7.;
run;