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comeon2012
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi all,

My SAS dataset named france has a variable Base_Date(Lenth:12, Format:$12, Informat:$12. Tpye: character). The obs. displayed like "2-Feb-06".

The attributes of Base_Date in other datasets are Lenth: 8 Format: DATE9.  Informat:DATE9.  Tpye: numeric and I want to convert the character date to numeric date just like the above.

My commands are as follows:

data france;

set france;

Base_Date=input(Base_Date,date9.);

run;

*failure, obs. like "2-Feb-06" becomes "16834";

*Lenth: 12 Format: $12. Informat: $12. Tpye: character remain the same;

I also tried some commands like below:

data france;

set france;

Base_Date=input(Base_Date,yymmdd8.);

run;

*failure, all obs. of this variable become missing values;


Could anyone give me some suggestions? Also I want to know why the attributes of Base_Date in a dataset are different from that in other datasets given that I import the data from the same type of file (CSV) to SAS using the same commands.

Thanks.

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Ksharp
Super User

You need a format.

data france;

set france;

new_Base_Date=input(Base_Date,date9.);

format new_Base_Date date9. ;

run;

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Ksharp
Super User

You need a format.

data france;

set france;

new_Base_Date=input(Base_Date,date9.);

format new_Base_Date date9. ;

run;

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