Good morning,
Im looking to see if sas can accomodate something similar to ISdate() function similar to sql,
i tried it in sas but its returning the function is not available.
my goal is to filter through 6million records to count any instance of non date and time in a field.
Unlike DataBase ,SAS don't have DATE type variable .
As long as integer take on date format , this variable is becoming a 'DATE' variable.
You can use function FMTINFO() to check if its format is a date or not .
Learn it from @Tom yesterday .
Not directly ASFAIK but...
in PROC SQL you can use SAS functions and among them, regular expression functions.
You could therefore check if a given field conforms to your date/datetime requirements before retrieving the records.
You could also preprocess your dataset in order to determine the fields you are interested in.
These are 2 possibilities among others.
- Cheers -
count(case when input(date,date9.) > . then 1 else 0 end) as NUM_DATES
The input function will return a date or . depending on the data, so you can do the above.
Unlike DataBase ,SAS don't have DATE type variable .
As long as integer take on date format , this variable is becoming a 'DATE' variable.
You can use function FMTINFO() to check if its format is a date or not .
Learn it from @Tom yesterday .
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