General SAS Programming

[kathisas]

hey

please please help

I have got an excel file that I converted to a sas dataset.

put the date is shown as an characteristic variable and I need to convert this to a date variable.

I tried a lot and I am new with SAS and programming. I study medcine and need this for results. so please help me.

thanks a lot

[kathisas · Accepted solution]

thanks a lot for your quick answers.

but my problem is solved now.

since I deleted the points in my excel files sas read the variables as date

thanks a lot.

and for everyone no points in excel files for missing values. this can misinterpret sas variable reading!!

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[ChrisBrooks]

Can you post an example of what the dates look like please?

[kathisas · Accepted solution]

thanks a lot for your quick answers.

but my problem is solved now.

since I deleted the points in my excel files sas read the variables as date

thanks a lot.

and for everyone no points in excel files for missing values. this can misinterpret sas variable reading!!

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[mkeintz]

Then please mark your topic as solved.