I am a new SAS user. I imported a date in the format dd-mmm-yy that was unfortunately read as a character variable ($9). I need to convert it to a date so that I can perform logical operations on it. How do I convert this variable to a date variable?
data example; x='11-FEB-16'; date = input(compress(x,'-'),date7.); put date mmddyy10.; run;
data example; x='11-FEB-16'; date = input(compress(x,'-'),date7.); put date mmddyy10.; run;
Thanks so much!!!
Hi:
Here's an example I use with my students. CHARDAY is a character string and BIRTHDAY is created as the number of days from Jan 1, 1960 by using the INPUT function.
cynthia
data bday;
length charday $9;
infile datalines;
input name $ charday $;
return;
datalines;
alan 01jan1960
barb 15nov1950
carl 29nov1984
dana 29sep2014
;
run;
data howold;
set bday;
birthday = input(charday,date9.);
howold_days = (today()-birthday);
howold_years = (today()-birthday)/365.25;
run;
title "After converting CHARDAY to numeric BIRTHDAY";
proc print data=howold;
var name charday birthday howold_days howold_years;
format birthday mmddyy10.;
run;
Thank you for this example!
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