The WORDDATEw. format writes a SAS date in the form of January 7, 2009. There isn't a WORDDATEw. informat to read that data. However, the ANYDTDTEw. informat can read it into a SAS date.

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	z/OS	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.1 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.1 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M0
		Linux	9.1 TS1M0
		OpenVMS Alpha	9.1 TS1M0
		Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

The ANYDTDTEw. informat reads a date value like January 7, 2009 into a SAS date.

---

 
data a;
  infile datalines truncover;
  input x anydtdte20.;
  format x date9.;
datalines;
january 7, 2009
;
run;
 

/* The SAS date was created and the format displays it as shown */


Obs            x

 1     07JAN2009

SAS has a WORDDATE format but doesn't have a WORDDATE informat. The ANYDTDTE informat can read the output and produce a SAS date.

Type:	Usage Note
Priority:
Topic:	SAS Reference ==> Informats ==> Date and Time ==> ANYDTDTE Data Management ==> Manipulation and Transformation ==> Date and Time

Date Modified:	2009-10-05 16:36:35
Date Created:	2009-10-01 12:35:55