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DmytroYermak
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

Hi all,

 

Could you please advise how to convert mmm yyyy into iso format.

 

data have;
  input cdate $10.;
  datalines;
Mar 2017
;
run;

 

I badly need the date in iso format: 2017-03

 

Thank you!

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jklaverstijn
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

If you want to keep your date as a character value than this would do the trick:

length sdate $8;
sdate=put(input(cdate, monyy8.), yymmd8.);

The SAS ISO formats always display the date. In your specific case it looks like you can get away with a more common date format.

 

In general I would recommend to read up on how SAS deals with dates as they are usually stored as numeric values and formatted in a desired form when presenting the value in a report or such. A good start would be the online docs.

 

Hope this helps,

-- Jan

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jklaverstijn
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

If you want to keep your date as a character value than this would do the trick:

length sdate $8;
sdate=put(input(cdate, monyy8.), yymmd8.);

The SAS ISO formats always display the date. In your specific case it looks like you can get away with a more common date format.

 

In general I would recommend to read up on how SAS deals with dates as they are usually stored as numeric values and formatted in a desired form when presenting the value in a report or such. A good start would be the online docs.

 

Hope this helps,

-- Jan

DmytroYermak
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
Thank you, Jan! I did not find the monyy8. format, now I will be aware.
BrunoMueller
SAS Super FREQ

I suugest to use the ANYDTDTE informat, this will give you a SAS date value, that can be used for many things, see example below

 

data have;
  input 
    @1 cdate $10.
    @1 sasDate anydtdte.
  ;
  
  sasDate2 = sasDate;
  
  format sasDate yymmd7. sasDate2 date9.;
  datalines;
Mar 2017
;
run;
DmytroYermak
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
Thank you, Bruno. The same with anydtdte. format ) - I never heard. This forum is really useful.

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