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Sharan
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi there,

I have a data set with date of birth in the format date9. I would like to create a var Age using an end date as 31DEC2020  but I do not want a column with  this  constant end date. The fixed end date should be built in the syntax.

How can I create a new age variable? Thanks!

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SASKiwi
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Age = yrdif(DOB, "31Dec2020"d, 'AGE');

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