EURDFMYw.

EURDFMYw.

Reads month and year date values in the form mmmyy or mmmyyyy

Category: Date and Time

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples
See Also

Syntax

EURDFMYw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	5 (except Finnish)
Range:	5-32 (except Finnish)

Note: If you use the Finnish (FIN) language prefix, the w range is 7-32 and the default value for w is 7. [cautionend]

Details

The date values must be in the form mmmyy or mmmyyyy, 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 place blanks and other special characters between day, month, and year values. A value that is read with EURDFMYw. results in a SAS date value that corresponds to the first day of the specified month.

Note: SAS interprets a two-digit year as belonging to the 100-year span that is defined by the YEARCUTOFF= system option. [cautionend]

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 informat, SAS ignores the DFLANG= option.

Examples

This INPUT statement uses the value of DFLANG= system option to read the international date values in French.

options dflang=french;
input month eurdfmy7.;

The second INPUT statement uses the French language prefix, and DFLANG is not specified.

input month fradfmy7.;

Data Lines Results

----+----1

avr1999

14335

avr 99

14335

See Also

Data Lines	Results
----+----1
avr1999	14335
avr 99	14335

Formats:

DDMMYYw.

MMDDYYw.

MONYYw.

YYMMDDw.

Functions:

MONTH

YEAR

Informats:

EURDFDEw.

EURDFDTw.

MONYYw.

System Options:

DFLANG=

YEARCUTOFF=

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