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LiamRowan
Calcite | Level 5

I have a date field that includes hours/minutes/seconds (e.g., '10SEP2012:0:0:0')dt).  I need the data to include only day/month/year (e.g., '10SEP2012'd instead of '10SEP2012:0:0:0')dt.  I created a new field based on the original date field using a computed column: put(datepart(t1.BirthDate), date9.).  The data looks right, but now I cannot filter using the BETWEEN function because the dates are in a character format.  There has got to be a better and different way to get rid of the hours/minutes/seconds and keep the date in a format that can be filtered as needed.

Thanks for ideas . . .

William

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ballardw
Super User

Just create the new variable as datepart(t1.birthdate) to get a SAS date variable and should work with between and date literals. The "put" is what made it a string result.

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ballardw
Super User

Just create the new variable as datepart(t1.birthdate) to get a SAS date variable and should work with between and date literals. The "put" is what made it a string result.

LiamRowan
Calcite | Level 5

This appears to work perfectly.  Thanks so much, really appreciated!

Wm

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