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Crubal
Quartz | Level 8

Hi,

 

I would like to filter out 'Stay_Date' before today. How could I change the following code in Data step?

 

Data Work.A;

     Set Work.B;

     Where Stay_Date LE 'sysdate'd;

Run;

 

It returns error: Invalid Date / Time. As 'Stay_Date' format is '2015-12-31'. But the following code is fine:

 

Data Work.A;

     Set Work.B;

     Where Stay_Date LE '25APR2017'd;

Run;

 

How could I use System date instead of a particular one? Thank you!

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

@Crubal wrote:

 

It returns error: Invalid Date / Time. As 'Stay_Date' format is '2015-12-31'


 

It seems you are confusing a few issues here. Stay_Date (without the quotes) is 2015-12-31 without the quotes, and this is a formatted date value, it is not a character string (which is what the quotes would indicate). Thus you need to compare Stay_Date to a SAS date value, for example:

 

 

where stay_date le today();

 

 No need for macro variables, or double-quotes to all the macro variable to be resolved.

--
Paige Miller

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Astounding
PROC Star

A couple of small changes:

 

     Where Stay_Date LE "&sysdate9"d;

 

It's important to use double quotes, so that the macro variable can resolve.

Crubal
Quartz | Level 8
Thank you that would be helpful for future Macro procedure!
PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

@Crubal wrote:

 

It returns error: Invalid Date / Time. As 'Stay_Date' format is '2015-12-31'


 

It seems you are confusing a few issues here. Stay_Date (without the quotes) is 2015-12-31 without the quotes, and this is a formatted date value, it is not a character string (which is what the quotes would indicate). Thus you need to compare Stay_Date to a SAS date value, for example:

 

 

where stay_date le today();

 

 No need for macro variables, or double-quotes to all the macro variable to be resolved.

--
Paige Miller

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