I have field as a char 10 (teststop3) 01/31/2017
I need to make this field a numeric 8. I have tried many ways and can not get this straight one way was
srvstop=input(teststop3,8.)
Likely you are looking for something like:
srvstop = input(teststop3, mmddyy10.);
and if you want to see the value as a date apply an appropriate format:
format srvstop mmddyy10. ;
or
format srvstop date9. ;
as a couple of examples.
srvstop will have a value similar to 20850. The formats show the value as a human readable date.
data _null_;
chardate = '01/31/2017';
date = input(chardate, mmddyy10.);
format date date9.;
put date;
run;
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