Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:57:32 -0700
Reply-To: "Terjeson, Mark" <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM>
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From: "Terjeson, Mark" <Mterjeson@RUSSELL.COM>
Subject: Re: date format problem
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Hi Hokut,
I couple of things come to mind, but they differ
depending upon clarifying the terminology in your
request.
In your first paragraph you mention reading in
a CSV external file in the first sentence and then
in the second sentence of the same paragraph you
mention the date specification in your dataset.
This could be interpreted two ways. IF, your referred
to dataset with the 3/18/1999, 2/6/1999, 11/19/1999,
11/4/1999 is really the CSV external flat file, then
I would guess that the sequenced offsets of length
truncation are probably due to the INPUT statement
reading the CSV file. Somehow the syntax bveing used
is causing the pointer to increment by 1 for each
field undesirably. Likely the inputting of the CSV
file is not handling a blank space in between the
date characters or something... If you show us
the syntax for the csv input we could help on that.
IF, you really do mean that "in my data set is as
3/18/1999, 2/6/1999, 11/19/1999, 11/4/1999" if this
data is already in a SAS-dataset which has already
been loaded from the csv, then your SAS processing
code or merge is somehow causing the truncation.
It again would be helpful if you could share the
syntax at these locations to troubleshoot this
non-input portion of your code.
As you can see, it is confusing for us to know
for sure which way to help because we typically
refer to a "dataset" as a SAS-dataset only. Any
other type of file we would not call a dataset.
(yes, sometimes in other platforms and languages
you may call a table of data a "dataset", etc.
but when asking a question on SAS-L we need to
be able know if we are talking about a SAS dataset
or some external file. This way we can immediately
tell "where" we need to be looking to locate and
solve the problem.
Maybe one of the clues above may help, or feel
free to give us some more details and possibly
some stripped down sample code.
I'm guessing the problem is with your input code
for the csv file with a wrong length being requested
and the actual file a different length due to
delimiters or something.
Hope this is helpful.
Mark Terjeson
Investment Business Intelligence
Investment Management & Research
Russell Investments
206-505-2367
Russell
Global Leaders in Multi-Manager Investing
-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of oslo
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:23 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: date format problem
Dear SAS user;
I tried to merge to different data set and import it into csv file. The date
spesification in my data set is as 3/18/1999, 2/6/1999, 11/19/1999, 11/4/1999
and so and.
When SAS merges data set it gives the datse column correctly for for example
2/6/1999. However it cuts the last one or last to digits of year in dates for
3/18/199 and 11/19/19 respectively. What is the why to makes read date
correctly as what they are
Regards
Hokut
