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r3570
Obsidian | Level 7

Dear All,

 

How to convert the below datetime format from character to numeric and vice-versa ?

 

2021-03-04T08:34

 

Thanks

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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

SAS provides the E8601 informats/formats for this:

data test;
numdt = input("2021-03-04T08:34",e8601dt16.);
format numdt e8601dt16.;
run;
r3570
Obsidian | Level 7

Thank you sooo much !!

Peter_C
Rhodochrosite | Level 12
See the paper
VFORMAT Lets SAS® Do the Format Searching
At http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/1744-2014.pdf

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