Write today's date in character format

[Lupacante]

Hi all,

I am aware of the function today() which returns today's date. UnIess format it with date9., this is impossible to read.

Once I have formatted it as date9., is there a way to make it character, so it will read "07MAY2014"?

Thanks,

Marco

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

Well, I use it in footnotes as: %sysfunc(date(),date9.)

I assume, though not tried it that: put(date(),date9.)

Would also work.

[stat_sas]

How about this

data have;

dt=today();

format dt date9.;

chardate=quote(put(dt,date9.));

run;

proc print;

run;