Sas Date question

[Bogusval]

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

[Bogusval]

Double post deleted.

[Astounding]

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]

If StartDate = '01Jan2018'd

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

[Bogusval]

Thank you very much! I will give that a try 🙂