hi,
I have a character date variable 11292000 wich I would like to convert into 20001129.
I used:
data want ;
set have ;
newdate=input (olddate, yymmdd8. ); but the code does not work.
any ideas? thanks
Of course that wouldn't work. You were telling SAS to read the value 1129 as the year.
data want ;
set have ;
newdate=input (olddate, mmddyy8. );
FORMAT newdate yymmdd8.;
run;
You may get warnings about conversion of numeric to character if your olddate variable is numeric as INPUT expects character values.
Of course that wouldn't work. You were telling SAS to read the value 1129 as the year.
data want ;
set have ;
newdate=input (olddate, mmddyy8. );
FORMAT newdate yymmdd8.;
run;
You may get warnings about conversion of numeric to character if your olddate variable is numeric as INPUT expects character values.
oh I see.
Never mind I fixed it. Thanks
@archibald Please mark the question as solved.
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