Date display as character date

[zimcom]

Greeting!

I want concatenate a SAS date variable trtsdt (eg., "2018-04-27") with text string doseduration "10 minutes" into a new text variable "27-Apr-2018 10 minutes", but when I use

TD = catx(' ', trtsdt, doseduration);

what I got is "21301 10 minutes"

How can I got the date portion appear as date like "27-Apr-2018 10 minutes"

Thank you so much!

[novinosrin · Accepted solution]

Please try-

TD = catx(' ', put(trtsdt,date11.), doseduration);

[zimcom]

Thank you so much, and have a great weekend!!

[ballardw]

Try:

D = catx(' ', put(trtsdt, date11.), doseduration);

you need to explicitly apply a format with Put to create a text value. Otherwise the CATX and similar functions will use a Best. format yielding integers for dates.

[zimcom]

Thank you for the explaination!