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rpg163
Calcite | Level 5

Hi,

I get string variable like this,  2001-12

I'd like to transfer this variable into date format like yyyymm;

How should I deal with this?

THX!

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Ksharp
Super User
data want;
input a $;
date=input(cats(a,'-01'),yymmdd12.);
format date yymmn6.;
cards;
2011-12
2002-1
;
run;

Ksharp

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Ksharp
Super User
data want;
input a $;
date=input(cats(a,'-01'),yymmdd12.);
format date yymmn6.;
cards;
2011-12
2002-1
;
run;

Ksharp

rpg163
Calcite | Level 5

THX!

Peter_C
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

if your string is not being read with input statements, then use the formula that Ksharp suggests above. However, when you are reading that string with an INPUT statement, immediately it can be converted to the date standard with informat ANYDTDTE.

Borrowing from Ksharp's demo above,

data want;

  input  date anydtdte7. ;

  format date yymmn6.;

list; cards;

2011-12

2002-1

;

run;

rpg163
Calcite | Level 5

THX!

I get it.

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