Hello,
I have a date in a character field that looks like 2017JAN and I need to convert to 201701 in another field, so it is recognized as a date. I have tried everything I can think of and researched but can not get the conversion to work.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Elliott
data x;
x='2017JAN';
y=input(cats(substr(x,5),substr(x,1,4)),monyy7.);
format y yymmn6.;
run;
proc print;run;
In SAS, 201701 is not a date. The conversion can be made as you requested, but you are not getting a date as the result. Here is one way to go about it. It gets your six-digits as a numeric value:
newvar = input(oldvar, 4.) * 100 + month(input('01' || substr(oldvar, 5, 3) || substr(oldvar, 1, 4), date9.);
data x;
x='2017JAN';
y=input(cats(substr(x,5),substr(x,1,4)),monyy7.);
format y yymmn6.;
run;
proc print;run;
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