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jcurran1289
Calcite | Level 5

Hi,

I have data that is suppose to be a date in the format mmddyy in excel. I am able to get majority of it into sas and convert it properly apart from some. The observations i am have a problem with are the ones that the user just entered the year, leaving out the day and month. These convert to 0 . is there any way to get sas to convert these observations to the equivalent of general formate in excel? Thave attached a sceenshot of the data

 

Thanks

 

 


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PGStats
Opal | Level 21

The answer is no. In Excel, each value (cell) can have its own format. In SAS, formats are associated with variables, not individual values. A variable can be formatted as YEAR4. or MMDDYY10. , but not both. If you want to mix formats. convert your data to character. 

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