EURDFDEw.

EURDFDEw.

Reads international date values

Category: Date and Time

Syntax
Details
Examples
See Also

Syntax

EURDFDEw.

w

specifies the width of the input field.

Default:	7 (except Finnish)
Range:	7-32 (except Finnish)

Note: If you use the Finnish (FIN) language prefix, the w range is 10-32 and the default w is 10. [cautionend]

Details

The date values must be in the form ddmmmyy or ddmmmyyyy, where

dd: is an integer from 01 through 31 that represents the day of the month.
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.

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= system option.

Examples

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

options dflang=spanish;
input day eurdfde10.;

This INPUT statement uses the Spanish language prefix in the informat to read the international date values in Spanish. The value of the DFLANG= option, therefore, is ignored.

input day espdfde10.;

Data Lines Results

----+----1----+

01abr1999

14335

01-abr-99

14335

See Also

Data Lines	Results
----+----1----+
01abr1999	14335
01-abr-99	14335

Format:

EURDFDEw.

Function:

DATE

Informats:

DATEw.

EURDFDTw.

EURDFMYw.

System Options:

DFLANG=

YEARCUTOFF=

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