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Quartz | Level 8

We have a new data supplier that is sending us data with a combined Month_Entry_Date variable.  The variable has data which is month and time as:

 

4/1/2018 12:00:00 AM

 

I only want to read the date component (4/1/2018) and ignore the rest and have SAS make it a date variable. The user has tried this with EG to no success. I suspect this may need to be programmed instead.

 

Any ideas?

 

-Bill

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

Import it as a date-time value, then apply the DATEPART function to it to make it a date value.

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Paige Miller

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