Please let me know value/outcome

[sasbasls]

Please confirm on the output of below function -

covdate = input(hire_date,yymmdd10.) + 360

if hire_date is 20010901. Will this output sas date ?

thanks,

latha

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covdate = input(hire_date,yymmdd10.) + 360
if hire_date is 20010901. Will this output sas date ?

Yes

[Reeza]

Why not try it?

data test;

     hire_date='20090901';

     cov_date=input(hire_date, yymmdd10.)+360;
     format cov_date date9.;

run;

proc print;

run;

Output from sas window.

Obs date cov_date

1 20090901 27AUG2010