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bd_user_10
Quartz | Level 8

Hi Everyone,

 

I have a daily dataset for more than 200 firms (firm id: isin) starting from 2000-01-01 to 2018-06-30. I would like to delete the dates after 2015-12-31 for all firms. Can anyone help? 

 

In my SAS data set, the date format is YYMMDD10.

 

Thanks.

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
if date > '31DEC15'd then delete;
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Paige Miller

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PaigeMiller
Diamond | Level 26
if date > '31DEC15'd then delete;
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Paige Miller
bd_user_10
Quartz | Level 8
what a champ!
RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

One thing I would say is that if you are using that dataset further, then you would be better off reading it with a where clause, as that may be quicker:

data want;
  set have (where=(date <="31dec2015"d));
  /*do your other code here */
run;

It may be a small difference but with lots of data could save some read/write time.

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