Why MMDDYYN8. Informat doesn’t work?

Mirisage — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:13:05 GMT

Hi SAS Forum,

I have two date values like below.

03312012 /*this means March 31, 2012*/

04302012 /*this means April 30, 2012*/

Q: I wanted to convert these two values to display like below.

03/31/2012

04/30/2012

I googled and found if the date is in format like this, i.e. 03312012, 04302012 etc., it is called MMDDYYN8.

So, I have used below approach for my intended conversion.

data have;

informat date MMDDYYN8.;

input date;

format date MMDDYY10.;

cards;

03312012

04302012

;

run;

Problem:

SAS complains like below …..

16 informat date MMDDYYN8.;

_________

485

NOTE 485-185: Informat MMDDYYN was not found or could not be loaded.

Could anyone let me know what informat then should I specify to read dates in these date formats, i.e. 03312012, 04302012 ?

Thanks

Miris

Re: Why MMDDYYN8. Informat doesn’t work?

DBailey — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:20:16 GMT

I think the informat is MMDDYY8. without the N. Normally the N in a date format means no delimiters.

pradeepalankar — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:39:24 GMT

data have;

input date MMDDYY8.;

format date MMDDYYN8.;

cards;

03312012

04302012

;

run;

MMDDYYN8. is format, not informat