求:关于引用日期变量,并维持其日期格式不变的办法!!!小弟先谢过了!
数据集a1:
date
12Dec2014
11Nov2013
数据集a2:
date
20141212
20131111
部分程序如下:
%do i=1 %to 2;
data new&i;
set a&i;
comments="The person's birthdate was" || date;
run;
%end;
生成的数据集分别如下new1为:
date comments
20069 The person's birthdate was 20069
19673 The person's birthdate was 19673
生成的数据集分别如下new2为:
date comments
20141212 The person's birthdate was 20141212
20131111 The person's birthdate was 20131111
当date为8位数字时,comments引用没有问题,但是当date为date9.等日期格式时,comments中只是它的数值形式,希望能够维持12Dec2014这样的形式不变,请问如何解决!