Date:         Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:39:27 GMT
Reply-To:     Howard Schreier <HSchreier@IGC.ORG>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Howard Schreier <HSchreier@IGC.ORG>
Organization: Institute for Global Communications
Subject:      SAS DATE PROBLEM

The statement would be
 
   where brthdt lt '01jan1996'd;
 
I think the single quotes probably got stripped accidentally in the
e-mail process.
 
It's not really a trick. This is a WHERE statement comparing a
variable to a constant. It does require a specific bit of knowledge:
how to code a date constant. This is covered on p. 115 of the SAS
Language Reference, Version 6, First Edition.
 
> Date:    Fri, 7 Aug 1998 13:26:07 PDT
> From:    Cybie Frontier <cybie@HOTMAIL.COM>
>
> Well, I just a neat trick to handle my date problem.
> I should have coded it as :
> where brthdt lt  01jan1996 d;
> run;
> It worked fine. However, where the heck do you get this info on this
> trick?
> CF