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DianeAnna
Calcite | Level 5

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!

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

Since your date and time are numeric, another option is to use DHMS function.

newdtm=dhms(date, 0,0,time);
Haikuo

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Hi,

attrib newdate format=datetime15.;

newdate=input(put(date,date7.)||put(time,hhmmss.),datetime.);

DianeAnna
Calcite | Level 5

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!

Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

Since your date and time are numeric, another option is to use DHMS function.

newdtm=dhms(date, 0,0,time);
Haikuo

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