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mlogan
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10

Hi there,

I wanted to extract the Month and Year from the date and soft them by MonthYear.

After running the following code I see that MonthYear in sas dataset (want) is also $7. format. When I export the dataset to excel (os that I can do some manipulation in excel) I see that MonthYear is not in date format. Can someone please help.

 

data want;
set have;
MonthYear=put(Date,monyy7.);
run;

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Reeza
Super User
PUT() converts the variable to a character format. Apply the format instead of converting it.

Format MonthYear monyy7.;

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26

You haven't actually asked a question. It seems like your sample code would get you the month and year.

 

What is the problem?

 

Now that you have added a paragraph to the original message, I withdraw my questions.

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Paige Miller
mlogan
Lapis Lazuli | Level 10
Here it is Miller
Reeza
Super User
PUT() converts the variable to a character format. Apply the format instead of converting it.

Format MonthYear monyy7.;

Astounding
PROC Star

Why not make life easy and just create two variables:

 

data want;

set have;

y = year(date);

m = month(date);

run;

 

They will pass to Excel easily, and can easily be sorted in any order you need.

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