Hi everyone,
How can I read this type of dates in eGuide?
Tuesday, 11th June 1985 |
Monday, 4th June 1990 |
Thx!
David
Tis fixed the problem:
data test;
F5='Friday, 10th January 1986';
worddate=left(scan(F5,2,','));
day=substr(worddate,1,2);
monthname=scan(worddate,2, ' ');
month=substr(monthname,1,3);
year=scan(worddate,3,' ');
date9=input(catt(day,month,year),date9.);
run;
proc print ; run;
I don't think you'll be able to read these without doing some further processing. Are they always in the form
<weekday>, <date>th <month> <year>
If they are, it is very easy to reformat them to be converted.
Tom
Tis fixed the problem:
data test;
F5='Friday, 10th January 1986';
worddate=left(scan(F5,2,','));
day=substr(worddate,1,2);
monthname=scan(worddate,2, ' ');
month=substr(monthname,1,3);
year=scan(worddate,3,' ');
date9=input(catt(day,month,year),date9.);
run;
proc print ; run;
Perfect. That's exactly the way to do things like this in SAS.
Your day assignment may not work with single digit dates.
day=substr(worddate,1,(notdigit(worddate)-1));
should fix it.
Tom
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