How covert character date: 2015-11 to SAS number

[lindamtl]

I have a data set, the month variable:month is CHAR7. So there is only year and month, ,shown as this format

2015-11

2015-12

I need to change them into NOV2015, DEC2015. So firstly i need change it into SAS .

I tried:

date=input(month, date7.) or other time formate, but it doesnt work.

As i need use conditional statement, so i dont want to separate them into year and month into to column, i hope they still stay in the same column.

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

28         data want;
29           Date_Char = '2015-11';
30           Date_Num = input(strip(Date_Char) !! '-01', yymmdd10.);
31           format Date_Num date9.;
32           put _all_;
33         run;

Date_Char=2015-11 Date_Num=01NOV2015 _ERROR_=0 _N_=1
NOTE: The data set WORK.WANT has 1 observations and 2 variables.
NOTE: Compressing data set WORK.WANT increased size by 100.00 percent. 
      Compressed is 2 pages; un-compressed would require 1 pages.
NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):
      real time           0.01 seconds
      cpu time            0.01 seconds

[lindamtl]

it works. i added a format, so it output as NOV2015. thanks.

data test1;
set aa (keep=month);
date=input(strip(month)!!'-1', yymmdd10.);
format date monyy7.;
run;

[Tom]

Note that SAS has new functions for concatenating strings. even newer than the relatively new STRIP() function.

Date_Num = input(cats(Date_Char,'-01'), yymmdd10.);

[lindamtl]

yes, it works, i also tried. thank you~