On Sep 3, 11:38 am, gerhard.hellrie...@T-ONLINE.DE (Gerhard Hellriegel) wrote: > Question is, do you really have time-variables? Not chracter variables > which look like time variable? > If that is the case, you should convert that to real time-variables: > > data a; > x="16:23"; > y="17:10:07"; > tx=input(x,time10.); > ty=input(y,time10.); > put tx time8.; > put ty time8.; > run; > > If you have already numeric time - variables, siply assign a wider time- > format. time8. should do what you want. > > Gerhard > > > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:12:49 -0700, Learner <pra...@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > >Hi, > > >I have a time variable with hours and minutes for example, 16:20, > >2:27, 6:18 etc. I want to add zero if the length of the time variable > >is less than 5 like 02:27. Please let me know how to do this by using > >the picture format. > > >Thank you, > >Learner- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -

The time variable I mentioned is a character variable. I got my desired value by using if length(time) ne 5 then time1=compress('0'||time); else time1=time;

But, I want to try it using the picture format. Iam not sure if I can use picture format in this. Just want to learn new stuff.

Thank you -L