Importing Text as Date and Ignore Time

[BCNAV]

We have a new data supplier that is sending us data with a combined Month_Entry_Date variable.  The variable has data which is month and time as:

4/1/2018 12:00:00 AM

I only want to read the date component (4/1/2018) and ignore the rest and have SAS make it a date variable. The user has tried this with EG to no success. I suspect this may need to be programmed instead.

Any ideas?

-Bill

[PaigeMiller]

Import it as a date-time value, then apply the DATEPART function to it to make it a date value.