Input function with hhmmss6. informat is behaving differently in SAS 9.2 and 9.3 when there are leading zeroes

[Saugata]

Hi,

I am executing the below code in both SAS 9.2 and 9.3:

data kk;

var='000042';

var2=input(var,hhmmss6.);

format var2 time8.;

run;

In SAS 9.2 (as well as in 9.1.3) the value of var2 is coming up as 0:00:42 (best12. value is 42), which is correct. But in 9.3 it is appearing as 42:00:00 (best12. value 151200). It seems SAS is just disregarding leading zeroes from the text field in 9.3.

Is there any change regarding this in SAS 9.3 for Input function (or informats).? I am really puzzled at why this correct thing be changed during upgrade, or is it a bug that crept in while moving on to 9.3.

I would really appreciate any insight on this.

Thanks & Regards,

Saugata Mukherjee.

[Kurt_Bremser]

When the same code produces different results between SAS versions, and said difference is not noted somewhere in the documentation, it is clearly a matter for SAS tech support. Open a track there.

We had a similar problem in the behaviour of the $ebcdic format between 6.12/8.2 that lead to a fix.