Hello SAS Community,
I have some datasets with date columns, however, some of my blank cells seem to be auto-filling with a " ."
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It presents an issue when I export my data into Excel and the columns are interpreted as character instead of date.
![mreynaud_1-1692987741535.png mreynaud_1-1692987741535.png](https://communities.sas.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/87119iD5FE8229EA28644E/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400)
It would be great if blank cells were left blank. Is there a simple way to turn off this future? Or do I have to add additional lines of code to replace "." with " "
Any help is much appreciated!