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india2016
Pyrite | Level 9

Hi,

 

I have a csv file which has a date variable with values like 160911, 151111.

I want to separate this date with either slash or hyphen like 16/09/11 and 15/11/11.

 

 

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india2016
Pyrite | Level 9
sequence is ddmmyy
india2016
Pyrite | Level 9
Thanks it worked.
FredrikE
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Very little information of what you really want to do 🙂

Do you want to read the file into sas and convert the date, do you want to change the file i.e write back the converted date.

Why do you want to insert / into the date?

 

Anyhow, this little step adds / to the new variable outdate by reading the variable indate 🙂

data test;

length indate $6 outdate $8;

input indate;

outdate = cats(substr(indate,1,2),'/',substr(indate,3,2),'/',substr(indate,5,2));

datalines;

160911

151111

;

run;

BR

Fredrik

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