Hi All,
I am trying to getting month and year from a datetime. field. While I manage to get May2017 from '02MAY17:07:57:59', I need it in the format 052017 i.e month expressed in digits. Can someone please guide how I can achieve it? Please find below the code I tried.
DATA date_constants;
datetime = '02MAY17:07:57:59'dt; /* This is a datetime constant */
run;
TITLE “Unformatted Constants”;
PROC PRINT DATA=date_constants;
VAR datetime;
run;
TITLE “Formatted Constants”;
PROC PRINT DATA=date_constants;
VAR datetime;
FORMAT datetime datetime.;
run;
data date_tril;
set date_constants;
serve = datepart(datetime);
format serve monyy7.;
PROC PRINT DATA=date_tril;
run;
Thanks,
Akhilesh Joshi
To be clear, you're not trying to get the month and year from the field. You're extracting the date and then formatting it. I think what you want is mmyyn6. for your format.
To be clear, you're not trying to get the month and year from the field. You're extracting the date and then formatting it. I think what you want is mmyyn6. for your format.
Hi Colin,
That format worked!
Thanks much!
Hi:
Once you use the DATEPART function, then it should only be a matter of picking the right format, as shown below. As you can see the same date is formatted multiple ways using different formats.
cynthia
Awesome ,Cynthia! Thanks a lot!
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