Date format on Proc Print

[anner]

I am trying to figure out how to get my data to print where month, day, and year are in the following format mm/dd/yyyy.  I used the catx statement I found in another post.  But I don't know how to make date show in the print statement.  I thought I could just insert the word date in my proc print var statement, but SAS erred saying date is missing.  Below is what I have in my program.  Thank you for any suggestions. - Anne  I am using SAS 9.3.

data b18;

INFILE 'm:\OFFICE\18BR.DAT' LRECL=2538 MISSOVER;

inPUT

      @6 cert 6.
      @116 year 4.
      @120 mnth 2.
      @122 day 2.
      @314 rescty 2.
      @128 LOC_ST 2.
      @2425 OOSCERT 10.;

RUN;

 
data want;

   set b18;
   date=input(catx("/",mnth,day,year),mmddyy10.);
   format date mmddyy10.;

run;

 

PROC PRINTdata=b18;

VAR LOC_ST OOSCERT RESCTY mnth day year;

run;

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

data want;
   set b18;
   date=mdy(mnth,day,year);
   format date mmddyy10.;
run;

proc print data=want;
  var loc_st ooscert rescty date;
run;

Please avoid coding in upper case.

[anner]

Thank you for your quick reply RW9.  🙂

[Amir]

Hi,

I think your code will work, you just need to replace b18 with want in your proc pint, which is why you're getting an error about date being missing because it does not exist on b18.

Regards,

Amir.