topic Re: how to read year from a date variable in SAS Procedures

how to read year from a date variable

Ravikumarkummari — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:29:05 GMT

hi all,

i have the dataset with variables id name joining date and salary

the birthdate is in the format date9.

now i have to read birthday only year i am trying with substr function but not getting the result.

can some one help me.

i tried as

x=substr("join_date"d, length("join_date"d)-3,4);

Is it correct?

Re: how to read year from a date variable

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:19:35 GMT

Just use the year() function. If you need it as character, wrap it into put(year(join_date),4.);

Re: how to read year from a date variable

Reeza — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 12:05:26 GMT

Is your join date variable a character or number/sas date. If its a number then Kurts solution is correct. If its a char yours is close but need to remove quotes and d from around join_date variable. Its not a good method because what if the date is shorter in some circumstances though.

Re: how to read year from a date variable

RW9 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:25:02 GMT

I agree with Reeza on the character. If its a date then you would normally have some kind of delimiter between day/month/year. Easier to check that:

for date_variable="01/JAN/2000"

Year=scan(date_variable,3,"/");

Should set year="2000" as its the third part.

Re: how to read year from a date variable

Community_Help — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:44:39 GMT

Hi there, I'm moving this from the "about Communities on SAS" space to the SAS Procedures space just so that these answers are visible to others in that area. Thanks!