Date:         Sat, 1 Apr 2000 06:15:52 GMT
Reply-To:     sashole@mediaone.net
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Paul Dorfman <paul_dorfman@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: sub-setting by date format
Comments: To: sputnam@EIS.COM.EG
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Shan,

It's strange. It should have produces a char-to-num conversion note in the
log, but worked, assuming that the date is indeed stored as a SAS date. In
any case, though, using the YEAR function seems to be less contrived in this
situation, as in

if mod(year(yourdate),100) = 99 then do;
............
end;

Kind regards,
====================
Paul M. Dorfman
Jacksonville, Fl
====================

>From: Shan <sputnam@EIS.COM.EG>
>Reply-To: Shan <sputnam@EIS.COM.EG>
>To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: sub-setting by date format
>Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 05:07:04 GMT
>
>I have a quick question about date formats
>I have a yymmdd2. format that pulls the 'year' off.
>I want to sub-set a dataset by a specific year. Something like this:
>if year=99 then do;
>.
>end;
>I've tried substr(var,1,2), but no good.
>but it doesn't seem to work - any thoughts?
>shan

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