Hello,
i have input file which i need to read and check the format of column in the file should be MM/DD/YYYY. If it is any other format like MM-DD-YYYY i need to flag it to remove it. What will be best possible solution?. i am using informat mmddyy10. but it reads both format which is expected.
If you don't like the - then you may want to read the values as character first then search for for any other character than / in the character value. If you data is consistetn then
flag = (index(characterdate,'/')=0 );
would set a flag of 1 for no / in the value.
then likely follow with
If flag=0 then datevalue = input(characterdate,mmddyy10.);
If you don't like the - then you may want to read the values as character first then search for for any other character than / in the character value. If you data is consistetn then
flag = (index(characterdate,'/')=0 );
would set a flag of 1 for no / in the value.
then likely follow with
If flag=0 then datevalue = input(characterdate,mmddyy10.);
data want;
infile ...;
input
...
datex $10.
...
;
daten = input(datex, mmddyy10.);
IF daten = . or
substr(datex,3,1) ne '/' or
substr(datex,6,1) ne '/'
then flag = 1;
else flag = 0;
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