Converting a Character to a Date With SAS. Statistical Analysis System, also known as SAS, as the name suggests, primarily serves as a software tool for statistical analysis.

Character format names must have a dollar sign ($) as the first character and no more than seven additional characters. A user-defined format cannot be the name of a format supplied by SAS. Refer to ...

In base SAS software, PROC FORMAT allows you to create your own informats and formats for both character and numeric variables. For more information on user-defined informats, see the FORMAT procedure ...