Convert string to date and select cases which fall during the weekend

* (Q) My dates are curently strings, I need dates and also need to select dates which
	fall on a Saturday or Sinday.

*(A) Posted to SPSSX-L list by Raynald Levesque on 2002/02/28.

DATA LIST LIST /str1(A10) id(F8.0).
BEGIN DATA
2001-03-04              087900
1990-07-28              458900
2001-02-16              895241
2001-03-09              448801
1998-09-30              890210
1999-12-31              754890
END DATA.

COMPUTE date1=NUMBER(str1,SDATE10).
COMPUTE wkday1=XDATE.WKDAY(date1).
COMPUTE flag=ANY(wkday1,1,7).
VARIABLE WIDTH date1(11) wkday1(10).
FORMATS wkday1(WKDAY9)date1 (ADATE11).
EXECUTE.