How to convert a character date with full month name to SAS date?

[Ani7]

I have a dataset that has a character variable called date with values
July 7, 2004
June 8,1998
December 14, 2018

How can I convert this to a SAS date without a whole bunch of substrings?

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

data have;
input word_date $ 20.;
num_date =input(word_date, anydtdte32.);
format num_date worddate.;
cards;
July 7, 2004
June 8,1998
December 14, 2018
;;;;
run;

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@Ani7 wrote:

I have a dataset that has a character variable called date with values
July 7, 2004
June 8,1998
December 14, 2018

How can I convert this to a SAS date without a whole bunch of substrings?

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