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YYMONw.

YYMONw.

Writes date values as the year and the month abbreviation

Category: Date and Time
Alignment: right

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples
See Also

Syntax

YYMONw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field. If the format width is too small to print a four-digit year, only the last two digits of the year are printed.
Default: 7
Range: 5-32

Details

The YYMONw. format abbreviates the month's name to three characters.

Examples

The example table uses the input value of 13589, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to March 16, 1997.

SAS Statement Results 


----+----1
 

put date yymon6.;
 

 97MAR
 

put date yymon7.;
 

1997MAR

See Also

Format:

MMYYxw.


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