SAS statements based on Help documents, but still produce 2 errors

[yuan_wang]

SAS Help Documents

WEEKDAY Function

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lefunctionsref&docsetTarget=p0ahi8tk3trkv5n173sil9hd7c62.htm&...

>> My comments

Even if I write the WEEKDAY Functions according to SAS Help documents, they still produce the Two Errors. 

Is SAS Official Document fooling users? A bit weird~~

Can you help me find the reason? Thanks 🙂 

/* EX01_test */

/* WEEKDAY Functions according to SAS Help documents */

/* Two Errors */

x=weekday('16mar97'd);

put x; 

Two Errors in SAS Log

62 /* EX01_test */

63

64

65 x=weekday('16mar97'd);

_

180

ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

66 put x;

___

180

ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

The documentation is correct, but you need to wrap it in a data step. 

data _null_;

x = weekday('16Mar97'd);
put x;

run;

If you don't want/need a data step, you can do it within macro functions but I suspect that's not what you're looking for at the moment. 

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@yuan_wang wrote:

SAS Help Documents

WEEKDAY Function

http://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lefunctionsref&docsetTarget=p0ahi8tk3trkv5n173sil9hd7c62.htm&...

>> My comments

Even if I write the WEEKDAY Functions according to SAS Help documents, they still produce the Two Errors. 

Is SAS Official Document fooling users? A bit weird~~

Can you help me find the reason? Thanks 🙂 

/* EX01_test */

/* WEEKDAY Functions according to SAS Help documents */

/* Two Errors */

x=weekday('16mar97'd);

put x; 

Two Errors in SAS Log

62 /* EX01_test */

63

64

65 x=weekday('16mar97'd);

_

180

ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

66 put x;

___

180

ERROR 180-322: Statement is not valid or it is used out of proper order.

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[yuan_wang]

Reeza,

Yup, Your revised version has no errors, but how can I get the value of X?

[Reeza]

What do you mean? If you're trying to see where the X information is printed to, then check the LOG, the results are in the LOG.

That's what the PUT statement does, it prints information to the LOG. 

If you want it in a data set, don't use _NULL_, give it a name and then PRINT the results. 

[yuan_wang]

Reeza, that's what I wanna know

Thank you very much for your prompt reply and nice help 🙂