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sumitbe139
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi all,

 

I am new to base sas programming.

i am  calculating  months,years and weeks in a sas data set that have a column of some dates, say "ABC"

column ABC in data setcolumn ABC in data set

 

 and i have calculate  "months,years and weeks" from current date.

 

pls suggest.

 

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ErikLund_Jensen
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

data have (drop=i);
format abc date9.;
   do i = 1 to 11;
      abc = '19feb2014'd + i;
      output;
 end;
run;

 

data want; set have;
   monthdif = intck('month',abc, date());
   weekdif = intck('week',abc, date());
   yeardif = intck('year',abc, date());

run;
run;

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ErikLund_Jensen
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Hi - Have a look at the INTNX function. It calculates different types of time intervals between two dates.

sumitbe139
Fluorite | Level 6
Hi,
Thanks for your response
I have done it

But I am stuck at how to assign a date1 to a column which as several dates in it pls see the image for reference.

Y=intck("month",date1,date2)
Date2 is today date

Pls suggest
ErikLund_Jensen
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
I will come up with a working code example in 3 minutes.
ErikLund_Jensen
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

data have (drop=i);
format abc date9.;
   do i = 1 to 11;
      abc = '19feb2014'd + i;
      output;
 end;
run;

 

data want; set have;
   monthdif = intck('month',abc, date());
   weekdif = intck('week',abc, date());
   yeardif = intck('year',abc, date());

run;
run;

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