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Bogusval
Fluorite | Level 6
To check a sas date in an if condition I always go to a bookmarked site to look up the sas date.

Is there a way to use the actual date in a date varible?

For example instead of
If StartDate = 58251

I would like to say
If StartDate = 201801

Is there a way to do that9

Thank you for your help
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Bogusval
Fluorite | Level 6

Double post deleted.

Bogusval
Fluorite | Level 6
 
Astounding
PROC Star

You can refer to a specific day without knowing the numeric value on SAS's date scale.  For example:

 

if datevar = '04Apr2018'd then do;

 

The date must be in quotes, must be in the format illustrated here, and must add a "d" after the closing quote.

SASKiwi
PROC Star
If StartDate = '01Jan2018'd

The "D" tells SAS to treat the string constant as a date.

Bogusval
Fluorite | Level 6
Thank you very much! I will give that a try 🙂

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