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Spintu
Quartz | Level 8

I have a date format like below example. If i want to convert in MMDDYY10. Using DATEPART function it is not working

 

date='March 29, 2019 5:00:00 AM GMT+01:00';

 

Do we have any alternate way to convert character date to date format?

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Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16

Please try the below code

 

data have;
date='March 29, 2019 5:00:00 AM GMT+01:00';
newdate=datepart(input(scan(date,1,'G'),anydtdtm.));
format newdate mmddyy10.;
run;
Thanks,
Jag

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JosvanderVelden
SAS Super FREQ
Just to verify. The date from your example is a character value and you want to transform it into a sas date (numeric)?
Spintu
Quartz | Level 8

Yes , you are right

Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16

Please try the below code

 

data have;
date='March 29, 2019 5:00:00 AM GMT+01:00';
newdate=datepart(input(scan(date,1,'G'),anydtdtm.));
format newdate mmddyy10.;
run;
Thanks,
Jag
Spintu
Quartz | Level 8

thank you for your quick response.

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