how can u convert this 25-jul-2010 from numeric to charcter?

Answer Posted / vigneshwaran.s

Read the date using informat date11. Then you can move this
Numeric SAS date to a Character variable. You can see in
the SAS Log that Numeric has been converted to Chanracter.

Option 2 : Is use a Put Function,

New_date = Put(Given_date,Format)

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