I have dates comming in as char 02-mar-49, how do i read this date in and output it to yymmddn8.
Thank you
Use DATE9. as the INFORMAT and YYMMDDN8. as the format.
So if you are reading from a text file:
data want ;
infile 'myfile' ;
input mydate date9.;
format mydate yymmddn8.;
run;
If you already have the value in a character variable then you can use INPUT function to convert it to an actual date.
mydate=input(mystr,date9.);
If you want to write it back to another character variable then use the PUT function.
mystr2 = put(mydate,yymmddn8.);
Use DATE9. as the INFORMAT and YYMMDDN8. as the format.
So if you are reading from a text file:
data want ;
infile 'myfile' ;
input mydate date9.;
format mydate yymmddn8.;
run;
If you already have the value in a character variable then you can use INPUT function to convert it to an actual date.
mydate=input(mystr,date9.);
If you want to write it back to another character variable then use the PUT function.
mystr2 = put(mydate,yymmddn8.);
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