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Fluorite | Level 6

Hi all,

 

I have a table that contains customer_id (around 1 Millions) and would like to create some random dates for these customers between 01/01/2015 and 01/01/2017 .

 

Please your help would be much appreciated as it is quite urgent.

 

Thank You very much

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User
%let start=01/01/2015;
%let end=01/01/2017;

data _null_;
start = input("&start",ddmmyy10.);
end = input("&end",ddmmyy10.);
interval = end - start;
call symput('start',put(start,best.));
call symput('interval',put(interval,best.));
run;

data want;
set have;
format newdate ddmmyy10.;
newdate = &start + rand() * &interval;
run;

 

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Post test data in the for of a datastep!!  Also post what you want out.

 

Here is an example, the diff between the two dates * by random number added to the base date, gives a date between the two values:

data tmp;
  call streaminit(123);      
  a="01JAN2015"d;
  b="01JAN2017"d;
  test="01JAN2015"d + floor((b-a) * rand("uniform"));
  format a b test date9.;
run;
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Fluorite | Level 6
Thank You RW9. It's what I need.

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