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EURDFDEw.

EURDFDEw.

Writes international date values in the form ddmmmyy or ddmmmyyyy

Category: Date and Time

Alignment: right

Syntax
Syntax Description
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Syntax

EURDFDEw.

Syntax Description

specifies the width of the output field.

Default:	7 (except Finnish)
Range:	5-9 (except Finnish)

Note: If you use the Finnish (FIN) language prefix, the w range is 9-10 and the default is 9. [cautend]

The EURDFDEw. format writes SAS date values in the form ddmmmyy or ddmmmyyyy, where

dd: is an integer 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 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.

The example table uses the input value 13881, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to January 2, 1998. 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 international date value in Spanish. The third PUT statement uses the French language prefix in the format to write the international date value in French. The value of the DFLANG= option, therefore, is ignored.

SAS Statements Results

----+----1

put date eurdfde9.;

02ene1998

put date espdfde9.;

02ene1998

put date fradfde9.;

02jan1998

See Also

Format:

DATEw.

Function:

DATE

Informat:

EURDFDEw.

System Option:

DFLANG=

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