topic Change a date variable to Swedish in SAS Programming

Change a date variable to Swedish

rhapsody — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 08:13:30 GMT

I have the following code

%let date=31MAR2019;

data _null_;
date_var="&date."d;
format date_var date9.;
month_name=put(date_var, monname.);
call symputx('month_name',month_name);
run;

%put &month_name;

This generates the the month name March. But I want the month name in Swedish, which is Mars

Anyone knows how to do this?

Re: Change a date variable to Swedish

SASKiwi — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 08:27:18 GMT

This link for the EURDFMNw. format should help: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=nlsref&docsetTarget=p145pxsliwoaogn146kcyceye2q2.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

The documentation suggests swapping out the first 3 letters for the language you want namely: SWEDFMNw.

Re: Change a date variable to Swedish

Kurt_Bremser — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 08:37:24 GMT

SAS provides NLS-capable format equivalents for the standard formats:

%let date=31MAR2019;
options locale=sv_SE;
data _null_;
date_var="&date."d;
format date_var date9.;
month_name=put(date_var, nldatemn10.);
call symputx('month_name',month_name);
run;
%put &month_name;

Log excerpt:

35         %put &month_name;
mars

Documentation (Maxim 1!) is found at

documentation.sas.com

SAS® 9.4 and SAS® Viya® 3.4 Programming Documentation

National Language Support (NLS)

Formats for NLS