I'm using a date format: FORMAT DATE MONYY5.
the data appears correctly in the dataset, but whenever I try to subset on that date, I receive an error:
36 PROC SGPLOT DATA = TOT_CLABSI (WHERE=(DATE < "APR16"d ));
ERROR: Invalid date/time/datetime constant "APR16"d.
Please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong1
Thank you!
A SAS date constant must always include days, months and years.
Therefore you need to enter it as '01apr2016'd in this case.
Can you explain why we cannot use MONYY5. informat?
Eg: where ( date = "JAN95"MONYY5.)
I am not able to understand why we cannot write this
PS no matter how it is formatted, a SAS date is always a number, counting days from January 1st, 1960.
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