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WEEKDAY

WEEKDAY


Returns the day of the week from a SAS date value

Category: Date and Time

Syntax
Arguments
Details
Examples

Syntax

WEEKDAY(date)

Arguments

date
specifies a SAS expression that represents a SAS date value.

Details

The WEEKDAY function produces an integer that represents the day of the week, where 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, . . . , 7=Saturday.

Examples

SAS Statements Results 
x=weekday('16mar97'd);
put x;
 
 
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