HI Im having and issue with a time column.
the column is a time9. 14:04:00
WHat i need to pull is the hour segment 14
when I did is a data step
data report;
set report;
hour= substr( left( time) ,2,4);
it gives the sas date of 50640. This is what it pulls in 0640 But the col I'm refer looks like this 14:04:00
thanks for your assistance
It must be that variable hour is already declared as a character variable prior to the hour=hour(time) statement. Look at SAS log, there must be a statement such as:
NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character
values at the places given by: (Line):(Column).
Try the following test:
data report;
length hourText $8; /* Declare hourText as a character variable */
time = '14:30:00't; /* time is a true SAS time value */
hourText = hour(time); /* Implies a conversion to character */
hourNumber = hour(time); /* Number result is assigned to a numeric variable (by default) */
run;
proc print; run;
If you want to get a number, assign the result of hour(time) to a variable that hasn't been declared as a character variable.
PG
If your time variable is a true SAS time value, you should use hour = hour(time) to get the hour number or hour=put(hour(time),best.) to get the character representation.
If time is a character representation of time then you should use hour = scan(time,1,":") . - PG
HI PGStats,
the hour did work it gave me the hour. But it converted it to a character for example
14:04:00 it gave me a 14 as a character what can i do within the datastep to make it a number? THANKS
data report;
set report;
hour=hour(time):
run;
It must be that variable hour is already declared as a character variable prior to the hour=hour(time) statement. Look at SAS log, there must be a statement such as:
NOTE: Numeric values have been converted to character
values at the places given by: (Line):(Column).
Try the following test:
data report;
length hourText $8; /* Declare hourText as a character variable */
time = '14:30:00't; /* time is a true SAS time value */
hourText = hour(time); /* Implies a conversion to character */
hourNumber = hour(time); /* Number result is assigned to a numeric variable (by default) */
run;
proc print; run;
If you want to get a number, assign the result of hour(time) to a variable that hasn't been declared as a character variable.
PG
hi
if for some reason the variable is in a character format you can allways create a new variable and converet it to a numeric format using input .
for example :
data report;
set report;
hour=hour(time);
hour1=input(hour,12.);
run;
good luck
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