read in data but datum makes problem

[duel]

Hi,

I have following data to read into SAS.

ID      animal ID       datum1     diagnose1 diagnose2 diagnose3 datum2
34204	1002031979	30.01.2017	2	4	3	.
33107	1001106236	16.01.2013	2	4	3	.
33107	1001655944	29.03.2013	1	13	.	.
33107	1001706748	05.04.2013	1	13	.	.
33107	1001555944	23.05.2013	1	13	.	.
33107	1001886460	13.06.2013	1	13	.	.
33107	1001607961	02.07.2013	1	13	.	04.02.2016
33107	1001531694	05.10.2013	1	13	.	.
33107	1000886460	30.04.2014	1	13	.	.
33107	1001555906	30.04.2014	1	13	.	.

I have IDs and animal IDs. For ever animal I have datums where the animal was treated by the vet and the diagnose1,2,3 tells me what kind of disease that animal had.

Now I want to read it into SAS. But the problem is the datum.

Here how it looks when I read it into SAS:

ID      animal ID      datum1 diagnose1 diagnose2 diagnose3 datum2
34204	1002031979      20849	.	2	.	    .
33107	1001106236	19374   .	2	.	    .
33107	1001655944	19446	.	1	.	    .
33107	1001706748	19453	.	1	.	    .
33107	1001555944	19501	.	1	.	    .
33107	1001886460	19522	.	1	.	    .
33107	1001607961	19541	.	1	13	    .
33107	1001531694	19636	.	1	.	    .
33107	1000886460	19843	.	1	.	    .
33107	1001555906	19843	.	1	.	    .

That the datum is now a number so SAS can work/count with it is ok but next column should be like the table above.

My SAS Code is this

data want;
infile 'have';
dsd missover delimiter = ';';
input
id
animal id 
datum_1 DDMMYY8.
Diagnose_1
Diagnose_2 
Diagnose_3
datum_2 DDMMYY8. ;
run;

Can anyone imagine what the problem could be?

[ballardw]

Show the log from when you run that data step.

The code you show cannot generate the output shown as

data want;
infile 'have';
dsd missover delimiter = ';';
input
id
animal id   <= This ID would read the third column into the variable ID 
datum_1 DDMMYY8.
Diagnose_1
Diagnose_2 
Diagnose_3
datum_2 DDMMYY8. ;
run;

Your informat is incorrect for datum1 and datum2, you want ddmmyy10. (count the number of characters) .

Also since your code shows a delimiter of ; it may help to post a few rows of data into a code box as your example input does not match your code either.

Best practice is to paste the data and log into a code box opened using the forum's {I} icon to preserve any messages or error text formatting. 

[Tom]

Looks like you forgot to attach a format to your date variables. So SAS is displaying the internal representation of the dates, which is number of days since 01JAN1960.  Just add a FORMAT statement to your data step.