Converting Character Date to Numeric Date

[jjadall1]

Hello SAS Supoort Communities,

I would like to convert the additional_signature_date_1 variable in the attached SAS dataset from a character variable to a numeric variable (a numeric SAS date).  I used the following code:

data audit.a2011p1;

set audit.a2011p;

date_var = input(additional_signature_date_1,date9.);

format date_var date9.;

run;

After running this, the date_var variable has a missing value (a dot) for each observation.  What should I change in my code?

God bless, best regards, and thanks so much,
Jadallah

[ShiroAmada · Accepted solution]

Looking at obs=14 for the variable additional_signature_date_1='8/25/2011' - This is NOT date9. informat but mmddyy10 informat.  

Try this....

data audit.a2011p1;
set audit.a2011p;
date_var = input(additional_signature_date_1,mmddyy10.);
format date_var date9.;
run;

Always check your log, WARNING messages must be there or _ERROR_.

Hope this helps.

[jjadall1]

God bless you and your family!  Thank you so much!  I appreciate it!  It worked!

[ShiroAmada]

Amen PTLA (Praise The Lord Almighty).

You have a blessed day and coming weekend  jjadall1

[Tom]

I am not going to download a zip file. Can you post some of the values of the charcter variable? Make sure to check whether the values have leading spaces.  For example you could run this data step to print the first 10 non-missing values.

data _null_;
  set audit.a2011p;
  where not missing(additional_signature_date_1);
  put additional_signature_date_1 $quote. ;
  if _n_ >= 10 then stop;
run;