extract date iso 8601 format

[buddha_d]

what functions can I use to extract 2010-12-28 from '2010-12-28T10:15' string?

What is the syntax to convert it (2010-12-28) to numberic ?

Thanks, 

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

If you only want the date portion this should work:

data want;
   str='2010-12-28T10:15';
   date= input(str,yymmdd10.);
   format date yymmdd10.;
run;

Note that anything that is not an actual valid 10 character date in the first 10 characters will generate an error.