Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:17:38 -0400
Reply-To: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject: Re: Convert Infile Date to SAS Date
Carol,
Your problem might simply be that you begin with initializing CRDATE, but
you didn't end the statement with a semicolon.
Art
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:57:55 -0400, Srna, Carol (C.) <csrna@FORD.COM>
wrote:
>I'm sorry. I did get rid of the 'slash'. The error is: NOTE: Invalid
>argument to function INPUT at line 21 column 14.
> CRDATE=.
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> CRDATE = INPUT(COMPRESS(CDATE,'/'),JULIAN7.);
> PUT CRDATE=;
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nathaniel_Wooding@dom.com [mailto:Nathaniel_Wooding@dom.com]
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>To: Srna, Carol (C.)
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>Subject: Re: Convert Infile Date to SAS Date
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>Carol
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>You julian date needs to have the '/' removed before SAS can work with
>it
>-- unless there is a new informat that I have not found. Try
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>data a;
>input jdate $ 1-8;
>cdate=input(compress(jdate,'/'),julian7.);
>cards;
>2004/237
>proc print;format cdate mmddyy10.;
>run;
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>Nat Wooding
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>The Input file:
> CDATE
>+----0----+
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>CC 96 - 103
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> 2004/237 This is how the date is in the input file
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>I input the date as CDATE DATE8. in my SAS file;
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>SAS tells me this is invalid data for the var. CDATE.
>What am I missing here?
>Thanks In Advance
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