reading in dates with supressed zeros

[myboys2]

how do you add zeros to dates when reading in file?  For example the file i am reading has dates as 201433 should be 20140303 or 2014133 should be 20141303 or 2013313 should be 20140313

[Haikuo]

If this is the case, you are having a dirty data problem beyond any programming can fix. First, make sure your data is YYYYMMDD or YYYYDDMM. Then Consider this: 2015111. Is it 20150111 or 20151101?

[ballardw]

At this point the question is can you go to the data source and have them clean up the dates, either provide the leading 0 as needed or separate year, month and day columns.