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tonywu
Calcite | Level 5

hi guys,

 

Hope you could help with this simple request.

 

So basically I want to extract the minimum date in an existing SAS dataset.

I used following to extract it, however the date format is not desired. It is different from original data source.

 

Any idea on how i could extract the the ddmmyyy format?

 

Thanks in advance.

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japelin
Rhodochrosite | Level 12

Try to specify the format like this

 

proc sql;
  create table sample as 
    select var format=date9. from test;
quit;
tonywu
Calcite | Level 5

thanks mate, it worked!

tonywu
Calcite | Level 5

thanks mate, it worked!

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