Date:         Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:20:16 GMT
Reply-To:     sjoberg@MY-DEJANEWS.COM
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From:         sjoberg@MY-DEJANEWS.COM
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
Subject:      Re: calculating age from DOB

Hi Jeremy try this
 
  date = input(dob,mmddyy6.);
 
 
hope it will help // Bosse Sjvberg
 
 
In article <6o1c1s$pch@paladin.cc.emory.edu>,
  jcorry@paladin.cc.emory.edu (Jeremy J. Corry) wrote:
> I have a dataset that contains a date of birth variable in format 'mmddyy'
>
> I would like to create a variable representing age in days.
>
> I assume if I convert my DOB variable to a SAS date value I can then
> subtract it from todays date and get age in days.
>
> But how do I convert DOB to a SAS date?
>
> thanks if you can help,
> Jeremy
>
 
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