weekday & today functions

[Solly7]

Hi, i need help in extracting data as per below code..as an example,if weekday(today())= 3 then i need the code to return the process_date = today()-4 meaning i need transactions with only process_date=04FEB2022

Once again if weekday(today()) = 2 then i need the code to return process_date=today()-3 meaning i will need only transactions with process_date=03FEB2022

See below data have , as well as my code attempt but i do not get desired results

data transactions;
input process_date :yymmdd10. amount reference &:$50.;
format process_date date9.;
datalines;
2022-02-04 100 trn01
2022-02-04 200 trn02
2022-02-03 300 trn03
2022-02-02 400 trn04
2021-02-01 500 trn05
;

DATA final_data;
    SET transactions;
	 if weekday(today())= 2 then process_date=today()-3;
	 else if weekday(today())= 3 then process_date=today()-4;
	 else if weekday(today()) in (4,5,6) then process_date=today()-2;
RUN;

[PaigeMiller]

What is incorrect about the output? If you run it today (Tuesday, February 8, 2022) then weekday(today()) gives a value of 3 and so all of your output should have process_date as today()-4, and that's exactly what happens, the resulting process_date is February 4, 2022.

[Solly7]

Hi I get the below results after running my code,which is incorrect
process_date amount reference
04FEB2022 100 trn01
04FEB2022 200 trn02
04FEB2022 300 trn03
04FEB2022 400 trn04
04FEB2022 500 trn05

Data Want
process_date amount reference
04FEB2022 100 trn01
04FEB2022 200 trn02

[s_lassen · Accepted solution]

Sounds like you want to extract some specific process dates, rather than set the process date (which is what your code does). Try this:

DATA final_data;                                                     
    SET transactions;                                                
  if weekday(today())= 2 then if process_date=today()-3;             
  else if weekday(today())= 3 then if process_date=today()-4;        
  else if weekday(today()) in (4,5,6) then if process_date=today()-2;
RUN;

Looks almost the same, but I changed the assignments to subsetting IFs.

[Solly7]

Hi Lassen, you have saved my life, your solutions works perfectly fine! I super appreaciate it