Dear all,
I have a huge dataset (over 1,000,000 records) with TWO date variables, date1 (Date9.) format, date2 (YYMMDDN8.) format.. I want to see the lowest and highest values of the date variable to verify this dataset contains all the years I needed.
for example, I expect the earliest year is 1976, and latest is 2011.
I tried:
proc means var date1 date2;
but it shows numeric values, I can't tell which year it is.
Is there an easier way?
Thanks,
Lan
proc summary ;
var date1 date2 ;
output out=stats;
run;
proc print data=stats;
where _stat_ in ('MIN','MAX');
format date1 date2 year.;
run;
proc summary ;
var date1 date2 ;
output out=stats;
run;
proc print data=stats;
where _stat_ in ('MIN','MAX');
format date1 date2 year.;
run;
Thanks, Tom.
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