Ho can I convert 2017-09-28 (Numeric, E8601da. format) into a character 8601 format.
It seems I just cant ever get the hang on formats and informats. Somebody please help.
data want;
format new_date1 yymmdd10.;
date='2017-09-28';
new_date1=input(date,yymmdd10.); /* SAS numberic date format- better approach */
new_date=put(input(date,yymmdd10.),mmddyy10.); /* character format */
run;
Is this what you are looking for? Your question is not clear.
It may help to show what you did and why you weren't satisfied with the result.
A common issue is people trying to change an existing variable from numeric to character. SAS doesn't do that.
Should be easy. So you have something like this where your existing variable is an actual date.
data have ;
date='28SEP2017'd;
format date e8601da. ;
put date= comma7. +1 date e8601da. +1 date date9.;
run;
Log
date=21,090 2017-09-28 28SEP2017
And you want to create a new variable that has a string in it that looks like a date.
data want ;
set have;
string = put(date,e8601da.);
run;
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