Hi Shirlee,

You have to convert back your date to a SAS date. Try something like this:

3315 data dummy; 3316 input x 6.; 3317 x=input(put(x,6.),mmddyy6.); 3318 put x= date9.; 3319 cards; (It was :102396)

X=23OCT1996 NOTE: The data set WORK1.DUMMY has 1 observations and 1 variables. NOTE: Compressing data set WORK1.DUMMY decreased size by 0.00 percent. Compressed is 1 pages; un-compressed would require 1 pages. NOTE: DATA statement used: real time 1.591 seconds cpu time 0.141 seconds

3321 ; 3322 run;

Good luck!

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>>>From owner-sas-l@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU Thu Oct 24 09:38 EDT 1996 >>>X-Sender: allensk@smartnet.net >>>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>>Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:12:06 -0400 >>>From: Shirlee Allen <allensk@SMARTNET.NET> >>>Subject: Conversion to SASDATE >>>To: Multiple recipients of list SAS-L <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> >>> >>>I stupidly read in a variable from a large raw data set (now gone) of the >>>form 102396 (mmddyy) as numeric and would now like to convert it to a SASDATE. >>> >>>Tried ATTRIB but that didn't work. >>> >>>Your help would be most appreciated. >>> >>> Happy Thursday. >>> >>> Shirlee