Date:         Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:36:24 -0400
Reply-To:     "Braten, Michael (Exchange)" <mbraten@BEAR.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Braten, Michael (Exchange)" <mbraten@BEAR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Date MMDDYYYY8.
Comments: To: "Chakravarthy, Venky" <Venky.Chakravarthy@PFIZER.COM>
Content-Type: text/plain

I NEED MORE COFFEE!


I meant   MMDDYY10.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chakravarthy, Venky [mailto:Venky.Chakravarthy@PFIZER.COM]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:24 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Date MMDDYYYY8.

Jishnu,

The specified format does not exist as a SAS supplied format. If you are
looking to write today's date as 06262003 without any separators for the
month, day and year portion use:

data _null_;
        call symput('ASOF',put(date(),mmddyyn8.));
run;

which gives:

52   %put <<<&asof.>>> ;
<<<06262003>>>

__________________________
Venky Chakravarthy
E-mail: swovcc@hotmail.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jishnu [mailto:jishguha@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:02 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Date MMDDYYYY8.


Hi I facing problem with this code:

data _null_;
        call symput('ASOF',put(date(),mmddyyyy8.));
run;

 data _null_;
NOTE: SCL source line.
2009          call symput('ASOF',put(date(),MMDDYYYY8.));
                                            ----------
                                            48
ERROR 48-59: The format MMDDYYYY was not found or could not be loaded.

2010  run;


I want the date in MMDDYYYY format how can I change that

Thanks


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