Hi,
I have the date1 value = 1978 i.e. all in 4 digits with informat and format of $64. I want to covert it to a numeric value with a format of year4.
First I tried:
data want;
set have;
if date2=input(date1,$64);
format date2 year4.;
run;
It doesn't work.
If I remove the format statement it keeps the value as character as the original variable.
I also tried date2=input(date1, year4.); and that doesn't work too.
Thanks.
you could assign a length to the date2 like this
data want;
length date2 4.;
set have;
There is no YEAR format or INFORMAT.
Years don't need formats, if the year is 1978, everyone knows what that means and you don't need to change its appearance with a format.
In your case, you want to simply convert from character to numeric
date2 = input(date1,4.);
you could assign a length to the date2 like this
data want;
length date2 4.;
set have;
Thank you!
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