I have one column that demonstrate each people's birthd.
Column contains 2million people's information(each are different and format yymmdd8. / ex : 19910111)
I want to dadd 65days to each people's birthd.
Much help appreciated. Thanks. Jamie.
To do this, you will need to study a little on how SAS handles dates. If BIRTHDT were actually a SAS date, you could just use:
newvar = birthdt + 65;
format newvar yymmdd10.;
However, I suspect that BIRTHDT is really just a number and 19110111 is really just 19,110,111. In that case, it needs to be converted to a SAS date first:
birthdt = input(put(birthdt,8.), yymmdd8.);
format birthdt yymmdd10.;
Then you can use newvar = birthdt + 65;
To do this, you will need to study a little on how SAS handles dates. If BIRTHDT were actually a SAS date, you could just use:
newvar = birthdt + 65;
format newvar yymmdd10.;
However, I suspect that BIRTHDT is really just a number and 19110111 is really just 19,110,111. In that case, it needs to be converted to a SAS date first:
birthdt = input(put(birthdt,8.), yymmdd8.);
format birthdt yymmdd10.;
Then you can use newvar = birthdt + 65;
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