topic Re: Converting Month From Number to Name in SAS Programming

Converting Month From Number to Name

UdayGuntupalli — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 00:46:08 GMT

All,
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong in the following data step. I get 'Jan' where I would expect 'Mar'

Data T;
  Month = 3; 
  Month_Str = put(Month,monname3.);  ; 
Run;

Best

Uday

VDD — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 01:49:00 GMT

try this month = today();

see if that helps demonstrate that the value of 3 you have assigned to month is referencing Jan 3, 1960

Data T;
  Month = today(); 
  Month_Str = put(Month,monname3.);  ; 
Run;

the first argument is the SAS date value. the second argument is the format