wherever there is blank date i wnat to put today's system date
if datefield = . then datefield = date();
but It gives me sas date
Of course, as intended. Dates are dates, and the SAS DATE function returns the current date as supplied by the operating system.
Since you say blank I'm going to assume you have a character value? Or is it numeric?
And if character what format is applied, ie how does it look 01Jan2016 or 01/01/2016?
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