Date conversion in SAS (String to Date)
问题 I import an Excel-spreadsheet using the following SAS-procedure. %let datafile = 'Excel.xlsx' %let tablename = myDB proc import datafile = &datafile out = &tablename dbms = xlsx replace ; run; One of the variables ( date_variable ) has the format DD.MM.YYYY. Therefore, I was defining a new format like this: data &tablename; set &tablename; format date_variable mmddyy10.; run; Now, I would like to sort the table by that variable: proc sort data = &tablename; by date_variable; run; However, as