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
data test1;
set test2;
format want date9.;
want = input(have !! "01", yymmdd8.);
run;
data test1;
set test2;
format want date9.;
want = input(have !! "01", yymmdd8.);
run;
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