I have two variables in this dateset.
column A column B
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column A is charactor variable. column B is numeric.
Each variable I have about 200 obs.
I need to not only consider the date, but also the time.
For some obs, that have same date, so I also need to compare time.
There are ISO-formats for this type of date and datetime notation:
data have;
input col_a :$16. col_b :datetime19.;
format col_b datetime19.;
cards;
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;
run;
data want;
set have;
col_a_num = input(col_a,e8601dt19.);
format col_a_num datetime19.;
run;
There are ISO-formats for this type of date and datetime notation:
data have;
input col_a :$16. col_b :datetime19.;
format col_b datetime19.;
cards;
2016-12-09T09:45 22NOV2016:00:50:07
;
run;
data want;
set have;
col_a_num = input(col_a,e8601dt19.);
format col_a_num datetime19.;
run;
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