Date:         Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:26:19 -0700
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From:         Learner <pradev@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: Picture format
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On Sep 3, 11:38 am, gerhard.hellrie...@T-ONLINE.DE (Gerhard
Hellriegel) wrote:
> Question is, do you really have time-variables? Not chracter variables
> which look like time variable?
> If that is the case, you should convert that to real time-variables:
>
> data a;
>   x="16:23";
>   y="17:10:07";
>   tx=input(x,time10.);
>   ty=input(y,time10.);
>   put tx time8.;
>   put ty time8.;
> run;
>
> If you have already numeric time - variables, siply assign a wider time-
> format. time8. should do what you want.
>
> Gerhard
>
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:12:49 -0700, Learner <pra...@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >Hi,
>
> >I have a time variable with hours and minutes for example, 16:20,
> >2:27, 6:18 etc. I want to add zero if the length of the time variable
> >is less than 5 like 02:27. Please let me know how to do this by using
> >the picture format.
>
> >Thank you,
> >Learner- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


The time variable I mentioned is a character variable. I got my
desired value by using
if length(time) ne 5 then time1=compress('0'||time);
else time1=time;

But, I want to try it using the picture format. Iam not sure if I can
use picture format in this. Just want to learn new stuff.

Thank you
-L