Date:         Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:09:42 GMT
Reply-To:     Jay Weedon <j_weedon@ESCAPE.COM>
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From:         Jay Weedon <j_weedon@ESCAPE.COM>
Organization: Zip News
Subject:      Re: string -> date -> string
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On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:10:19 -0500, Tim Pi <fmrco!timpi@UUNET.UU.NET>
wrote:
 
>Hi SAS users,
>
>      I have a string variable yymmdd (e.g 970117). I would like
>      to convert it into date variable so that I can do some opertaions
>      to add one day or one week to it, that is, yymmdd + 1 (970118) and
>      then convert it back as a string variable.
 
Try something along these lines:
 
 x='970117';                   * Define string variable with length 6;
 
Now:
 
 y=input(x,yymmdd8.)+1;        * Convert to SAS date and add 1 day;
 x=put(y,yymmdd6.);            * Convert back to string - '970118';
 
 x=put(input(x,yymmdd8.)+1,yymmdd6.);    * Or do it all in one step:
 
Jay Weedon.