hello,
its necessary for me to select a null as a datetime. my code:
proc sql
create table work.checking as
select
filenumber,
. as datecolumnname format=datetime26.7 informat=datetime26.7.,
customername,
address
from table
;
QUIT;
i think my trouble is with the informat part, why isn't this working? i get an error that it expects a quoted string
You're missing a semicolon after the Proc SQL Statement.
Otherwise, no problem :
proc sql;
select *,
. as datecolumnname format=datetime26.7 informat=datetime26.7
from sashelp.class
;
quit;
You're missing a semicolon after the Proc SQL Statement.
Otherwise, no problem :
proc sql;
select *,
. as datecolumnname format=datetime26.7 informat=datetime26.7
from sashelp.class
;
quit;
As mentioned, your PROC SQL statement misses the semicolon.
Informats are only needed when reading from external data, which you never do here, so the INFORMAT= option can be safely omitted.
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