I'm having trouble calling a date within an if statement. My date is, for example, "2001-08-05". I am trying to subset my data based on the date. So this is my code:
If ID = "Yes" and Date > 2001-08-05 then delete;
But this just doesn't do what I'm asking. I don't get an error, but it doesn't perform what I ask. I tried "2001-08-05"d. as well but this produced an error. Is there a certain way to read this format?
The proper format for a date constant in SAS is 'ddmmmyyyy'd, so:
if ID = 'Yes' and Date > '05Aug2001'd
You can use either single or double quotes to delimit the constant. The month name in the constant is case insensitive.
On a side-note, if you need to do a date-time constant in SAS, the format is 'ddmmmyyyy:hh:mm:ss'dt. Notice the suffix becomes dt rather than just d and there is a semi-colon between the date and time.
Or you could try to covert character to date
If ID = "Yes" and Date > input('2001-08-05',yymmdd10.) then delete;
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I have the date of particular timezone, and I want to convert it to the GMT timezone, and then it needs to be inserted into DB using esql of MQ. Please help to resolve this issue.
If you want to convert a date from a format to another, you can do the following :
DECLARE inDate DATE;
DECLARE outDate DATE;
DECLARE tempDate DATE;
DECLARE patternIN CHARACTER 'yyyy-MM-dd';
DECLARE patternOUT CHARACTER 'yyMMdd';
SET tempDate = CAST(inDate AS DATE FORMAT patternIN);
-- Convert input String as Date (should match patternIN)
SET outDate = CAST(tempDate AS CHARACTER FORMAT patternOUT)
-- Convert the date object to the desired date format
Of course you need to be able to define your date pattern. I know you might need to separate the DATE from the TIME, but the object are exactly the same. A quick example of a specific cast :
CAST(CURRENT_DATE AS CHARACTER FORMAT 'yyyy-MM-dd') || 'T' || CAST(CURRENT_TIME AS CHARACTER FORMAT 'HH:mm:SS')
This will generate a date in the XML format, e.g : 2019-08-28T16:46:32
I need to create a new column with an IF.
If the difference between two dates is more than a month I have to use a text-like "much time" but if it is not I have to show a date.
So the date must be converted to a string to use a text column.
How can I convert date to text?
Fecha_real =
IF( DATEDIFF(ventas[fecha_pedido]; ventas[fecha]; month) = 1 ;
"much time";
ConvertToTextInSomeWay ventas[fecha]
)
This is pretty simple with the FORMAT function.. For example, FORMAT(ventas[fecha], "Short Date") will convert fecha into textlike "12/31/2018".
That's just one format example. There are plenty of pre-defined and custom options if you'd rather something else. For example, FORMAT(ventas[fecha], "dd-mm-yyyy") would format that same date as "31-12-2018" instead.
I had a problem with my code. It returns the below error:
DAX comparison operates do not support comparing values of type date with values of type text.
Basically, I want to count rows based on some conditions. And I know there is a need to convert the data type, but I am not sure how to do it.
Total Open Issues =
--------------------
--basic info
VAR SELECTEDDATE =
DATEVALUE(SELECTEDVALUE(Calender[FullDateAlternateKey].[Date]))
--------------------
--FIND the relvent data
VAR rlvttable =
calculatetable(
Tracker,
Tracker[Catagory]="ISSUE",
DATEVALUE(Tracker[ClosedDate])>SELECTEDDATE
||Tracker[ClosedDate]=""
)
--------------------
--Results
Return
countrows(rlvttable)
Anyone could advise me how to correct it? Thanks~
Check the data type of columns Tracker[ClosedDate] and Calender[FullDateAlternateKey] - one of them is Text, rather than Date.
To fix, you could:
choose a different field which is already a Date format
change the format of the offending column
use DATEVALUE in your measure, to convert the text date to a real date.
It also looks like you need to edit this statement, as these conditions conflict:
Tracker[ClosedDate]>SELECTEDDATE
&&Tracker[ClosedDate]=""
I am trying to compare the closedDate with "". I should use blank() instead.
I am trying to validate date which is coming from an excel sheet , the format should be in dd/mm/yyyy
i tried with regex pattern [0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}
but this won't work with single digit date and we since we cannot add 0 at start in excel sheet this pattern ain't working. (this is for blueprism tool which have a action for regex matching]
To build in the resiliency you require, you'll have to accept either 1 or 2 digits for both dd and mm:
[0-9]{1,2}/[0-9]{1,2}/[0-9]{4}
Since you are mentioning that you are working with BluePrism, are you sure that you really need Regex for validating dates? Because BP has built-in feature for that callable directly inside a Calc stage - checkout following example (you can see Expression of selected Calc stage in top Expression bar).
The function used for validating dates is IsDate([Some date as string]), result is saved into a Flag data-item.
After the check you can use that Flag data-item in a Decision block and do whatever you consider appropriate if a date is not an actual date.
Note: of course, if you are working with lists/datatables in a Code stage instead of iterating over a collection in process layout, then you need something else, but this might be still helpful.
In Code stage I would probably simply use DateTime.Parse(String) method which is able to automatically convert a date in a form of a String into a DateTime object instance; example:
' DateTime.Parse throws an Exception if parsing failed.
Dim valid As Boolean = False
Try
Dim d = DateTime.Parse(First_Date)
valid = True
Catch e As Exception
valid = False
End Try
See more about parsing dates using DateTime.Parse at MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1k1skd40(v=vs.110).aspx
There is also a nice post about parsing dates here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18465222/7439802
In blue prism you can use
FormatDate(Now(), FormatOfDate)
For comparing two dates, initially Convert(" FormatDate ") in same format and then you can compare.
For " FormatDate " option you can refer Help of Blue prism and search for dateadd --> select the Calculation and decision
I want to convert the string 20160101000000 into datetime format using expression. I have used below date function
TO_DATE(PERIOD_END_DATE),'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
But my table file is not loading. My session and workflow gets succeed. My target and source is also flatfile.
I want to change the string 20160101000000 into MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS for loading data into my target table.
You need to give exact format that looks so that to_date function can understand that format and converts it into date.
TO_DATE(PERIOD_END_DATE,'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')
So here your date looks like YYYYMMDDHH24MISS (20160101000000).
There is often confusion with the TO_DATE function... it is in fact for converting a string into a date and the function itself is to describe the pattern of the incoming date. Now if you want to convert a date field to a specified date format you must use TO_CHAR