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Friend1
Calcite | Level 5

Could anyone help me to change to the DATE format from the character? I have added the first two observations for the character variable:

10/9/2020, 12:11 AM

10/28/2020, 1:04 PM

 

Thank you very much.

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Reeza
Super User
dateVar = input(scan(charVar, 1, ","), mmddyy10.);
format dateVar date9.;

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Reeza
Super User
dateVar = input(scan(charVar, 1, ","), mmddyy10.);
format dateVar date9.;
Friend1
Calcite | Level 5
Thank you, Reeza for your help.

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