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.
if date > '31DEC15'd then delete;
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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