Extracting date, month, year and time from a datetime variable

[France]

Dear all,

how to extract the last four word from the variable, and recorded as a year?

data date;
	input date $50.;
	datalines;JAN2009;
run;

could you please give me some suggestions?

thanks in advance

[stat_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Something like this?

data want;
set date;
year = substr(date,length(date)-3);
run;