EURDFMYw.

EURDFMYw.

Writes international date values in the form mmmyy or mmmyyyy

Category: Date and Time

Alignment: right

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples
See Also

Syntax

EURDFMYw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default:	5 (except for Finnish)
Range:	5-7

Note: If you use the Finnish (FIN) language prefix, w must be 8, which is the default value. [cautionend]

Details

The EURDFMYw. format writes SAS date values in the form mmmyy, where

mmm: is the first three letters of the month name.
yy or yyyy: is a two- or four-digit integer that represents the year.

You can set the language for the SAS session with the DFLANG= system option. (Because the SAS Installation Representative usually sets a default language for the site, you may be able to skip this step.) If you work with dates in multiple languages, you can replace the EUR prefix with a language prefix. See DFLANG= for the list of language prefixes. When you specify the language prefix in the format, SAS ignores the DFLANG= option.

Examples

The example table uses the input value 15342, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to January 2, 2002. The first PUT statement assumes the DFLANG= system option is set to Spanish.

options dflang=spanish;

The second PUT statement uses the Spanish language prefix in the format to write the name of the month in Spanish. The third PUT statement uses the French language prefix in the format to write the name of the month in French. The value of the DFLANG= option, therefore, is ignored.

SAS Statements Results

----+----1

put date eurdfmy7.;

ene2002

put date espdfmy7.;

ene2002

put date fradfmy7.;

jan2002

See Also

SAS Statements	Results
	----+----1
put date eurdfmy7.;	ene2002
put date espdfmy7.;	ene2002
put date fradfmy7.;	jan2002

Formats:

DDMMYYw.

MMDDYYw.

MONYYw.

YYMMDDw.

Functions:

MONTH

YEAR

Informats:

EURDFMYw.

MONYYw.

System Option:

DFLANG=

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