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mfaqueiroz
Fluorite | Level 6

Hello,

I want to filter my table (Tab1) by the time gap between 2016-01-01 and 2016-01-31, so I wrote the follow code:

 

Tab1.FirstDate BETWEEN  To_Date(20160101,'YYYYMMDD') AND To_Date(20160131,'YYYYMMDD')

 

 

But SAS does not recognize the To_Date function. Do you have any alternative suggestion?

Thanks in advance for your help,

🙂

 

 

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Date literals in SAS are specified as "ddmmmyyyy"d.

In your case, you'd use "01jan2016"d and "31jan2016"d, respectively. No functions needed. You can also use single quotes.

LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

@Kurt_Bremser described how to do it in SAS.

To_date is a proprietary function to Oracle. SAS adhere to ANSI SQL, with SAS language add-ons.

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mfaqueiroz
Fluorite | Level 6

Hello,

I tried the your solution @Kurt_Bremser, but the following error message appears:

 

 

ERROR: Expression using equals (=) has components that are of different data types.

 

I have to change the date format?

 

 

Thank you for your willigness to help,

🙂

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Please post the complete log of the step.

If you used the date literals exactly as I suggested, then your supposed date variable is not a date variable, but of type character.

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