I have a macrovariable
and i want to convert it to a numeric date and store it for the entire dataset
%let monthyear=Aug1999;
In the below the WANT table should have numeric AUG 1999
data want;
set have;
run;
Thanks
There is no such thing as a single numeric value that corresponds to all of August 1999. Numeric SAS dates correspond to a single day.
You can save it as a character variable in this fashion:
monyr = "&monthyear";
Or you can save it as a numeric variable representing a particular day:
monyr = "01&monthyear"d;
If you prefer some other date other than the first of the month, that's obviously easy to change.
Good luck.
I mean putting
8/1999
OK, this code could be used:
num_date = "01&monthyear"d;
length char_date $ 7;
char_date = left( put(month(num_date),2.) || '/' || put(year(num_date),4.) );
My recommendation would be to alter the result slightly, using a leading zero for months prior to October:
char_date = put(month(num_date),z2.) || '/' || put(year(num_date),4.);
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