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gloooria
Calcite | Level 5

Hi everybody,

 

I am trying to convert a character variable HAVE (format $6) that contains year and month which are written as yyyymm (e.g. 201801) into a date format (variable WANT), preferably expressed as 01JAN2018.

 

In my Initial variable, the day is missing, so it should always be the first of a given month.

 

How can I do this?

 

I tried the following, but unfortunately it doesn't work:

 

data test1;

set test2;

format WANT date9.;

WANT = Input( HAVE, date9.);

run;

 

 

I would be very happy if somebody could help me. Thank you in advance!

 

Kind regards,

Gloria

 

 

 

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