You are trying to use YEAR as an INFORMAT, when it only exists in SAS as a FORMAT. This means it will only work when you already have a SAS date and you apply it with a PUT function or FORMAT statement. Try this instead: fiscyear = mdy(1, 1, input(charyear, 4.)); format fiscyear year4.; To create a SAS date you also need to tell SAS the day and the month of your date, so that fiscyear actually stores 1 Jan 2014, for example.
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