topic Re: Split a date in SAS Procedures

Split a date

anweinbe — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:26:02 GMT

Good afternoon,

I have a column within my dataset called "file_accepted". A sample record shows as "09MAR2007:16:12:21".

I am trying to create a field that grabs the 2 digits after the first colon, in this example the 16... which is military time for 4pm. Ideally, I would like my new field to be coded as "1" if the time is at 4PM or after, and "0" if the time is before 4PM.

Thank you!

Re: Split a date

ballardw — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:35:06 GMT

What type of variable, character or numeric? If the variable is a SAS datetime value, numeric with a format of DATETIME18 or similar then you can check the Hour of the value with the hour function:

data want;

set have;

newvar = (Hour(file_accepted) ge 16);

run;

If it isn't a datetime value then you really should make a datetime valued version as most of the steps involving comparisons, selections or other manipulations of datetimes start with that conversion.

Re: Split a date

anweinbe — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:37:30 GMT

That did it! Thank you!!!

Re: Split a date

Reeza — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:42:18 GMT

What's your data type and format on that column?

If it's a datetime you can likely use the HOUR() function.