I have a situation where I need to convert a date to date9. in a macro variable
%let date=2012-01-01;
I need to convert above date to date9. format in to another macro variable.
ANy help is much appreciated.
Use %sysfunc and inputN function to convert:
%let date=2012-01-01;
%let date_d9=%sysfunc(inputn(&date, yymmdd10.), date9.);
%put &date_d9.;
Use %sysfunc and inputN function to convert:
%let date=2012-01-01;
%let date_d9=%sysfunc(inputn(&date, yymmdd10.), date9.);
%put &date_d9.;
Thank you for this solution Reeza. It really helped me today! 🙂
Hi all,
I tried the same thing but it does not work here:
23 %put &StT; /* aus der Eingabeaufforderung */
20170401
24
25 %let dateend = %sysfunc(putn(%sysfunc(INPUTN(%sysfunc(PUTN(&StT, Z8.)), YYMMDD8.)), date9.));
26 %put &dateend;
01APR2017
27
28
29 %PUT SAS DATA VALUE: &StT;
SAS DATA VALUE: 20170401
30
31 %let dateend2 = %sysfunc(INPUTN(&StT, Z8.), date9.);
32 %put &dateend2;
*********
33
I cannot find my error. Can somebody please help?
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