Hi,
I imported a data from excel file into SAS dataset, and I had month name (e.g. Jan, Feb) in one of the fields. When I imported it, the fields was imported as Character, but I'd like to change it to date (MONNAME3.) format. I tried it to change in "Property" tab, and under "General" -> "Group" to Date, but I saw only Character in Group. Can someone help me how I can change it?
Thanks.
You will have to be prepared to supply more information. SAS dates represent a particular day.
Given a three-letter month, you can always decide that the day should match the first day of the month. But you have to be prepared to supply a year as well.
Editor's note: added sample code to illustrate this solution.
data mon;
infile datalines;
length monname $ 3 month 8;
format month monname3.;
input monname;
/* building a proper date with DayMonthYear */
/* "Jan" becomes "01Jan0", which SAS can read as a date */
month = input( cat('01',monname,'0'), date9.);
datalines;
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
Jan
;
You will have to be prepared to supply more information. SAS dates represent a particular day.
Given a three-letter month, you can always decide that the day should match the first day of the month. But you have to be prepared to supply a year as well.
Editor's note: added sample code to illustrate this solution.
data mon;
infile datalines;
length monname $ 3 month 8;
format month monname3.;
input monname;
/* building a proper date with DayMonthYear */
/* "Jan" becomes "01Jan0", which SAS can read as a date */
month = input( cat('01',monname,'0'), date9.);
datalines;
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
Jan
;
Thank you for the reply.
I added date 1 and year 0, and it worked. I was able to change it to MONNAME3. format.
Thanks again.
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