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hdg
Obsidian | Level 7 hdg
Obsidian | Level 7

I have a dataset called myds which has the below columns date code I would like to add another column called prevmonthdate which is the last business date of the previous month Thanks, HD

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Reeza
Super User

Probably a better way than this, specifically to check if its a Saturday/Sunday. I also believe this question is answered on here, so searching will probably get you a better response.

data have;

    do i=1 to 12;

        date=mdy(i, 15, 2014);

        output;

    end;

run;

data want;

    set have;

    last_business_day=intnx('month', date, -1, 'end');

    if weekday(last_business_day) =1 then last_business_day=last_business_day-2;

    else if weekday(last_business_day)=7 then last_business_day=last_business_day-1;

    format date last_business_day date9.;

run;

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Reeza
Super User

Do you need to account for holidays?

hdg
Obsidian | Level 7 hdg
Obsidian | Level 7

no just business days..thanks

ballardw
Super User

So which are your business days?

hdg
Obsidian | Level 7 hdg
Obsidian | Level 7

sorry for being so unclear long day.. i mean just monday to friday only week days

Reeza
Super User

Probably a better way than this, specifically to check if its a Saturday/Sunday. I also believe this question is answered on here, so searching will probably get you a better response.

data have;

    do i=1 to 12;

        date=mdy(i, 15, 2014);

        output;

    end;

run;

data want;

    set have;

    last_business_day=intnx('month', date, -1, 'end');

    if weekday(last_business_day) =1 then last_business_day=last_business_day-2;

    else if weekday(last_business_day)=7 then last_business_day=last_business_day-1;

    format date last_business_day date9.;

run;

hdg
Obsidian | Level 7 hdg
Obsidian | Level 7

THank you. Both answers are correct!! Thanks very much

Reeza
Super User

SASKiwi answer is preferable to mine, more efficient.

SASKiwi
PROC Star

Alternative way:

Data want;

Date = "21Feb2014"d;

last_month_busday = intnx('WEEKDAY', intnx('MONTH', date, -1, 'END'), 0);

format last_month_busday date9.;

run;

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