How do I informat MMDDYY8. ?

[ivethguzman]

Hello, 

I'm having trouble using infromat and input. I want my DOB to look like this "10/21/46", but I keep getting negative wrong numbers. 

Does it have to do with the year that SAS was invented?

I have put my code below, with the text file and the output.

Thank you

SAS Code:

data Employ;
infile '/folders/myfolders/MY SAS Files/Data/EMPLOY.txt';
informat DOB MMDDYY8.;
input ID GENDER $ DOB @@;
label ID = 'Employee Number'
	  GENDER = 'Gender'
	  DOB = 'Date of Birth';
run;
/**
proc print;
run;
/**/
proc sort data=Employ out= empl;
by ID;
run;

Text File:

01 F 10/21/46
02 F 09/02/44
03 M 04/23/55
04 F 11/11/38

 Output : 

[PeterClemmensen]

The values are imported correctly. They are just not formatted yet. Simply add a format statement like this

data Employ;
infile datalines;
informat DOB MMDDYY8.;
format DOB MMDDYY8.;
input ID GENDER $ DOB @@;
label ID = 'Employee Number'
	  GENDER = 'Gender'
	  DOB = 'Date of Birth';
datalines;
01 F 10/21/46
02 F 09/02/44
03 M 04/23/55
04 F 11/11/38
run;