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5. SAS Techies 2009 11/13/09 DATE() Today() Gives the current date Date() Today() 14686 MDY Contructs SAS date from the values passed to it MDY( month,day,year ) 01/01/1960 ->> 0 Functin Description Form Sample Value YEAR Extracts the year value from a SAS date value. YEAR( date ) 2002 MONTH Extracts the month value from a SAS date value. MONTH( date ) 12 DAY Extracts the day value from a SAS date value. DAY( date ) 5

6. SAS Techies 2009 11/13/09 Example LastName=scan(‘How, R’,1,' ,'); Initial=substr('NsHARAD',1,1); substr(x,1,3)=‘NEW'; Where x=‘SKWEST’ NewAddress= trim(‘Jersey ‘) NewAddress= trim(left((‘ Jersey ‘) ) Found=index(‘SAS Analyst,‘SAS ') UPCASE(‘sharad’) LOWCASE(‘ShaRAD’) Function Usage SCAN SCAN( argument,n,delimiters ) SUBSTR SUBSTR( argument,position,n ) TRIM TRIM( argument ) LEFT (argument) INDEX INDEX( source,excerpt ) UPCASE UPCASE( argument ) LOWCASE LOWCASE( argument )