Converting STRING VARIABLE (DD.MM.AAAA HH:MM:SS) TO DATE

[Carlos Renato-2]

Dear friends of list

      I have problems to convert a string variable, for example
"20.10.200112:10:56" in
a date variable that contains 20/10/2001 12:10:56 in date format. Do you
know soluctions
or syntax for this?

Thanks for all responses.

Carlos Renato
Statistician