*(Q) My ASCII file contains date stamp fields of the format '01/01/89 05:16:25 AM.000000000' How can I read that information into a date and time variable. *(A) Posted to SPSSX-L list on 2003/04/08 by Raynald Levesque. DATA LIST LIST /id siteid (2F8) name (A10) str1(A30). BEGIN DATA 1, 1, 'Name 1', '01/01/89 05:16:25 AM.000000000' 2, 152, 'Name 2', '01/01/95 10:18:25 PM.000000000' 3, 17, 'Name 3', '01/01/02 10:18:25 AM.000000000' END DATA. COMPUTE #space=INDEX(str1," "). COMPUTE date1=NUMBER(SUBSTR(str1,1,#space-1),ADATE8). COMPUTE #ampm=INDEX(str1,"M"). COMPUTE time1=NUMBER(SUBSTR(str1,#space,#ampm-2),TIME10). FORMATS date1(ADATE8) time1(TIME10). IF SUBSTR(str1,#ampm-1,2)="PM" time1= time1 + 12*60*60. LIST.