Date:         Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:23:40 -0500
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From:         "data _null_," <datanull@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: %Eval and dates
Comments: To: Kevin Martino <kevinQED@gmail.com>
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SAS has just one numeric data type floating point.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Kevin Martino <kevinQED@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! That works.
> The reason for this code is that the start_date and end_date will be inputs
> to a macro and I was just experimenting with how to get the number of days.
> Incidentally i looked up %SYSEVALF - it says this is for floating point
> evaluation. Why does this work with SAS dates which are integers, surely?
>