It pretty easy take the values you have and trun them into a SAS Date value. Since the day is not passed and the Date value you have in your data set is Date9, which means it will have a day value, you will need to sync the two up.

%Let Month = January ;

%Let Year = 2010 ;

%Let Date = %SysEvalF( "01%Substr(&Month, 1 , 3)&Year"d ) ;

Proc SQL ;

Select *

From xyz

Where IntnX( 'Month' , xyz_date , 0 , 'B' )

=

&Date ;

Quit ;

Here I took the information passed and contructed a SAS Date value from it in the third %Let statement. Giving it the first day of the month.

Then used that value in the where clause in the SQL procedure, where I used the IntnX function to push the Date value to the first of the month. Now the comparison will work.

Toby Dunn

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> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 02:28:59 -0400 > From: peesari.mahesh@GMAIL.COM > Subject: Pass date values > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > dear all; > > i have data as date values in date9. format,i will enter values from > external browser > as month=january and year=1995,how shld i write code to compare this > values with the values in data set, > > proc sql; > select * from xyz > where mn=&month. and yr=&year. > quit; > > > Thanks > Mike _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2