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brophymj
Quartz | Level 8

I am trying to change a date which is held in a string and of the format 01 DEC 2012 to a SAS date. Is this easy to do?

Also, I have a character field holding number which I would like to convert to number formats. i.e. 1,769 as a character field of length 10. 

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Yes, input reads text and converts to numeric (dates and times are actually numbers), put does the reverse so:

data want;

     set have;

     new_date=input(compress(string_date),date9.);  /* Compress as you have blanks */
     new_num=input(text_num,best.);
     format new_date date9.;   /* apply format, otherwise you will see number of days since a date in the past */
run;
brophymj
Quartz | Level 8

Thanks rw9, that works for the dates. In the case of a the number it's not working. My number is currently a string of the form:

1,569

79

104

1,333

and so on. It's working for the numbers with commas but not the other ones.

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Ah, you need to use the comma format then:

  new_num=input(text_num,comma8.);

All formats can be found in the online help:

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