I have a variable date with values month1-month38 and i want to recode them to 1/1/2012-1/1/2015. Is there an easy way to do this? Using array maybe?
If the current value is actually month1 then the current variable is text. Do you want an actual SAS date valued variable (recommended) or a text string.
If month1 represents Jan 2012 then something like:
newdate = intnx('Month','01JAN2012'd,(input(substr(date,6),best2.) -1),'BEGINNING');
FORMAT newdate mmddyy10.;
If the current value is actually month1 then the current variable is text. Do you want an actual SAS date valued variable (recommended) or a text string.
If month1 represents Jan 2012 then something like:
newdate = intnx('Month','01JAN2012'd,(input(substr(date,6),best2.) -1),'BEGINNING');
FORMAT newdate mmddyy10.;
Thanks this is exactly what i was looking for!
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