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Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:27:53 -0700
Reply-To:   sdlenter <sdlentert@AOL.COM>
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From:   sdlenter <sdlentert@AOL.COM>
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Subject:   Re: Dates - count
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that didn't work 120 proc format; 121 value RangeFmt 1 - high ='1 Year Old' 122 2 - high ='2 Years Old' 123 3 - high ='3 Years Old' 124 5 - high ='5 Years Old' 125 10 - high ='10 Years Old' 126 run; ERROR: These two ranges overlap: 1-HIGH and 2-HIGH (fuzz=1E-12). ERROR: These two ranges overlap: .-HIGH and 3-HIGH (fuzz=1E-12). ERROR: These two ranges overlap: .-HIGH and 5-HIGH (fuzz=1E-12). ERROR: These two ranges overlap: .-HIGH and 10-HIGH (fuzz=1E-12). NOTE: The previous statement has been deleted.

NickyNN wrote: > Would you like a count of the number of years from today's date ? > > How about something like this: > > proc format ; > value RangeFmt (multilabel) > 0="0 Year Old" > 1-high="1 Year Old" > 2-high="2 Year Old" > 3-high="3 Year Old" > 5-high="5 Year Old" > 10-high="10 Year Old"; > run; > > data TestData; > input CharDate $ ; > > SASDate = input(CharDate,yymmdd8.); > Today=today() ; > YearsOld=year(Today)-year(SASDate) ; > > format SASDate Today Date7.; > cards; > 20051111 > 20041016 > 20030102 > 19990518 > 19990610 > 20001231 > 20010101 > 20010317 > 20011224 > 19800101 > 19800102 > ; > run; > > proc sort data=TestData ; > by descending SASDate ; > run ; > > proc summary data=Testdata nway ; > class YearsOld / mlf order=Data; > Var SASDate ; > format YearsOld RangeFmt. ; > output out=DateCounts (drop=_type_ _freq_) n=DateCounts; > run ; > > proc print data=SummaryCounts ; > run; > > Cheers, > Nicky.


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