Working with dates in SAS

[chevy37]

Hello,

I'm working with SAS 9.3 and having trouble.  I am trying to figure out the age of people by subtracting everyone's date of birth from their interview date.  Here is the syntax I have created in order to create the bday and interview variables along with the error messages that are haunting me.

bday = mdy (abthmo abthdy abthyr) ;

                                 ------

                                  388

                                  202

           ----

           71

interv = mdy (pintmo pintda pintyr) ;

                                 ------

                                  388

                                  202

ERROR 388-185: Expecting an arithmetic operator.

ERROR 202-322: the option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.

ERROR 71-185: The MDY function call does not have enough arguments.

[Anotherdream · Accepted solution]

You aer missing commas in your MDY function. Should be.

bday=mdY(abthmo,abthdy,abthyr);

same for your interview day