date add days

[radhikaa4]

Hi My current dataset looks like this:

ID	start_date_time	stop_date_time	discharge
1234	4/4/2020 12:42	4/9/2020 12:11	5
4567	8/1/2019 19:12		.
8910	8/2/2019 18:12	8/11/2019 18:12	9

WHat I would like to do

if discharge < 7 then new_stop_date_time = stop_date_time

else if discharge >= 7 then new_stop_date_time  = stop_date_time

else if discharge = . then new_stop_date_time  = start_date_time + 7 days

I tried the following

data o.time_to_first_event2; set o.time_to_first_event;
if discharge < 7 then new_stop_date_time= stop_date_time;
else if discharge >= 7 then new_stop_date_time= stop_date_time;
else discharge=. then new_stop_date_time= intnx('dtday', start_date_time, 7);
format new_stop_date_time DATETIME16.;
run;

Not working! 

discharge is in BEST12. format

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

Doesn't work is awful vague.

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One common problem we all learn with SAS is that missing is "less than everything". So you may need something like:

data o.time_to_first_event2; set o.time_to_first_event;

if  0 <= discharge < 7 then new_stop_date_time= stop_date_time;
else if discharge >= 7 then new_stop_date_time= stop_date_time;
else discharge=. then new_stop_date_time= intnx('dtday', start_date_time, 7);
format new_stop_date_time DATETIME16.;
run;

Pick a reasonable value for the "0 <= discharge" I show above.

Or you could preface the If/then with something like:

data o.time_to_first_event2; set o.time_to_first_event;
if not missing(discharge) then do;
   if discharge < 7 then new_stop_date_time= stop_date_time;
   else if discharge >= 7 then new_stop_date_time= stop_date_time;
end;
else new_stop_date_time= intnx('dtday', start_date_time, 7);
format new_stop_date_time DATETIME16.;
run;

[Kurt_Bremser]

Start by reading the log and fixing the syntax errors. Your code misses a semicolon.