Verifying the validity of a SAS date literal.

[JohnSAScom]

Hi,

Is there a SAS function to verify if a given SAS date literal value is a valid date?  For example, if I had the date literal "35feb95", is there a function I could pass it to and have it tell me that it is not a valid date?

[kiranv_]

please go this thread, this has pretty much the answer you need

https://communities.sas.com/t5/Base-SAS-Programming/Isdate/m-p/367328#M87435