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paulrockliffe
Obsidian | Level 7

Hello,

 

I've got some dates that I need to do use in filters and prompts.  They are month end dates stored as a string and they're in the format 0911 = 30 September 2011.  I'm struggling to convert the numbers to dates in a way that doesn't end up as 911 days after 1 Jan 1960.

 

I'm using Enterprise Guide 5.1 and would prefer a solution that I can use in a computed column.  I'd also like to know how to convert this into both Sep 2011 or 30 Sep 2011, I'm not sure which will be most useful at this stage.

 

Thanks! 

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User
num_date = input('01'!!char_date,ddmmyy6.);
* now you have the first day of the month;
num_date = intnx('month',num_date,0,'end');
* now you have the last day of the month;

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User
num_date = input('01'!!char_date,ddmmyy6.);
* now you have the first day of the month;
num_date = intnx('month',num_date,0,'end');
* now you have the last day of the month;
paulrockliffe
Obsidian | Level 7

Thanks, that's brilliant!

 

Once I'd remembered that || is concatenate I managed to work out what you were doing.  My problem was that I don't know SAS dates well enough to know whether 0911 can be a valid date, I assumed it could and ran into trouble.  Next time I'll know better!

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