Separate numbers with slash

[india2016]

Hi,

I have a csv file which has a date variable with values like 160911, 151111.

I want to separate this date with either slash or hyphen like 16/09/11 and 15/11/11.

[Kurt_Bremser]

What is the sequence? YYMMDD, DDMMYY or MMDDYY?

[india2016]

sequence is ddmmyy

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

Then do this:

data want;
input datevar ddmmyy6.;
format datevar ddmmyys8.;
cards;
160911
151111
;
run;

[india2016]

Thanks it worked.

[FredrikE]

Very little information of what you really want to do 🙂

Do you want to read the file into sas and convert the date, do you want to change the file i.e write back the converted date.

Why do you want to insert / into the date?

Anyhow, this little step adds / to the new variable outdate by reading the variable indate 🙂

data test;

length indate $6 outdate $8;

input indate;

outdate = cats(substr(indate,1,2),'/',substr(indate,3,2),'/',substr(indate,5,2));

datalines;

160911

151111

;

run;

BR

Fredrik