topic Re: Converting SASdate to Character and numeric in SAS Procedures

Converting SASdate to Character and numeric

Anilsk — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:34:32 GMT

How to convert the SAS data to character and numeric form?

Re: Converting SASdate to Character and numeric

Florent — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:46:22 GMT

Hello,

The SAS dates are stored as numeric by default. You should have a look to the different formats that you can apply to dates.

If you want to convert a SAS date into a character then I suggest you to use the put statement (refer to the online doc for more detailed informations).

e.g.

data test;
set ;

DateAsChar = put(DateVar, ddmmyy10.);
run;

I hope it helps.

Regards,
Florent

Re: Converting SASdate to Character and numeric

sbb — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:05:30 GMT

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Re: Converting SASdate to Character and numeric

Anilsk — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:59:44 GMT

Thanks Florent, I was able to convert it successfully.