if blank then add system date

[ashishj816]

wherever there is blank date i wnat to  put today's system date

[Kurt_Bremser]

if datefield = . then datefield = date();

[ashishj816]

but It gives me sas date

[Kurt_Bremser]

Of course, as intended. Dates are dates, and the SAS DATE function returns the current date as supplied by the operating system.

[Reeza]

Since you say blank I'm going to assume you have a character value? Or is it numeric?

And if character what format is applied, ie how does it look 01Jan2016 or 01/01/2016?