Hello,
I have a datetime format like shown below and have difficulty changing it to a date9. format.
Format is datetime22.3 and informat is also datetime22.3
ID Tken_date
110 12DEC2015:00:00:00.000
111 13DEC2015:00:00:00.000
112 14DEC2015:00:00:00.000
113 15DEC2015:00:00:00.000
WANT
ID Tken_date
110 12DEC2015
111 13DEC2015
112 14DEC2015
113 15DEC2015
Thanks
If you are not actually using the time part I would suggest converting to a date and assigning the desired format:
data want;
set have;
Tken_date=datepart(Tken_date);
format Tken_date date9.;
run;
If you are not actually using the time part I would suggest converting to a date and assigning the desired format:
data want;
set have;
Tken_date=datepart(Tken_date);
format Tken_date date9.;
run;
OMG!, I was trying that and other PUT, INPUT combinations all this while but it throwed up some negative numbers.
It works now though ...thansk a ton...
Regards
DTDATE9
format variable_name dtdate9.;
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