Hello
I am trying to create a new variable from a date/time string of text that has the year, month day, hour, minutes, and seconds (yyyymmddhhmmss). I need to do two things:
1) truncate this variable so that it just has the month, day and year
2) reformat that to be mm/dd/yyyy
TIA!
want = input(substr(have,1,8),yymmdd8.);
format want mmddyy10.;
Do you want an actual DATE variable? Or another string variable?
data example;
dtstring='20200624151423';
date = input(dtstring,yymmdd8.);
format date mmddyys10.;
datestring=put(date,mmddyys10.);
run;
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