I have two separate fields - one a date and one a time - that I need to concatenate together into one long datetime field.
Date field is a numeric field, currently in the YYYY-MM-DD format (2014-07-24 for example) and the time field is numeric in the HH:MM:SS format (9:23:00 or 11:35:00 for example - the leading 0 is not there for half of the time).
I need to get these two separate fields into a format that looks like: 01NOV13:09:23:00 - the date has a length of 7, the time has a length of 8 and there is a colon between them.
I tried formatting both fields, then concatenating, then formatting the concatenated field, and no such luck.
Thanks!
Since your date and time are numeric, another option is to use DHMS function.
Hi,
attrib newdate format=datetime15.;
newdate=input(put(date,date7.)||put(time,hhmmss.),datetime.);
Great - that worked, except that SAS couldn't find the hhmmss format - I changed it to hhmm8. and then it worked like a charm.
I didn't even think about the attrib - have rarely used it.
Thanks!
Since your date and time are numeric, another option is to use DHMS function.
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