Hello
I have a character variabel "date" in a data set "test" where they are given as
201212
201312
osv.
I would like a time variabel so 201212 becomes 12/31/12. How can this be done?
Regards, Søren
You have a charater field which represents part of a date. You want a numeric value which is the SAS interpretation of the date. You don't say what the default is on Day however, given that you put 31 in the example, I assume you want the last day of the month, so you would combine with a intnx:
data want; str_date="201212"; num_date=intnx("month",input(cats(str_date,"01"),yymmdd10.),1)-1; format num_date date9.; run;
You have a charater field which represents part of a date. You want a numeric value which is the SAS interpretation of the date. You don't say what the default is on Day however, given that you put 31 in the example, I assume you want the last day of the month, so you would combine with a intnx:
data want; str_date="201212"; num_date=intnx("month",input(cats(str_date,"01"),yymmdd10.),1)-1; format num_date date9.; run;
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