Date:         Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:28:43 -0400
Reply-To:     "Chakravarthy, Venky" <Venky.Chakravarthy@PFIZER.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Chakravarthy, Venky" <Venky.Chakravarthy@PFIZER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Date format
Comments: To: "Livingston, Arthur (OIG/OAS)" <ALIVINGSTON@OIG.HHS.GOV>
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Ya Huang has pointed out that I misinterpreted the poster's question.
Thanks.

The format the poster is seeking is not yet a SAS supplied format. However,
it is easy to create this with the PICTURE date directives:

proc format ;
   picture mydate low-high =
      '%y/%0d/%0m' (datatype = date) ;
run ;

data _null_ ;
  newdate = input("08/01/99",mmddyy8.) ;
  chardate = put(input("08/01/99",mmddyy8.),mydate8.) ;
  put newdate=: mydate. chardate = ;
run ;

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-----Original Message-----
From: Livingston, Arthur (OIG/OAS) [mailto:ALIVINGSTON@OIG.HHS.GOV]
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:58 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Date format


I have a date in the following format:

08/01/99

It is a character field - 8bytes.  I would like to convert it to read as
follows:

990108

Thanks for any help in advance.

Arthur Livingston
Region III
Advanced Techniques Staff
215-861-4501 x2014
215-861-4541 (Fax)

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