Title: Convert a SAS date to a character variable *// *
*//* Goal: Use the PUT function to create a character variable from *//*
a SAS date. *//* *//***************************************************************************/
data one;
input sasdate :mmddyy6.;
datalines;
010199;
run;
data two;
set one;
chardate=put(sasdate,mmddyy6.);
run;
/* RESULTS */
Obs sasdate chardate
1 14245 010199
Source: ftp://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/sample/datastep/convertchar.html
2 comments:
Fine, but what about a date like 01011999, which there doesn't appear to be a date format for?
you use mmddyy8. format instead of mmddyy6.
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