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librasonali
Quartz | Level 8

date1 =12001

Create a new variable Chdate that converts the date1 variable to a character variable that is in the format ddmonyyyy, such as 11NOV1992.

 

 

my prog :

Data X;

date1 =12001; 

Chdate=put(date1,9.);
format Chdate ddmonyyyy. ;

run;

output 

date1 Chdate

12001 12001 

 

Chdate should be in format ddmonyy. 

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PeterClemmensen
Tourmaline | Level 20
Data X;
   date1 = 12001; 
   Chdate = put(date1,date9.);
run;
librasonali
Quartz | Level 8
if date1 =201411
/*where initial 4 digits are year and rest months */
then what will be the format ?
Kurt_Bremser
Super User

@librasonali wrote:
if date1 =201411
/*where initial 4 digits are year and rest months */
then what will be the format ?

If that is stored as a number, you need to first convert it to a SAS date:

date1 = input(put(date1,z6.),yymmn6.);

for the DATE9. format to work. You will see that the resulting date is the first of the month.

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