How to recreate the WORDDATE format with PROC FORMAT

PhilC — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:42:28 GMT

How does one re-create the WORDDATE format using only PROC FORMAT.

The format WORDDATE is defined on SAS help websites. An excerpt below explains it's behavior.

Thanks in advance.

WORDDATE Format

Writes date values as the name of the month, the day, and the year in the form month-name dd, yyyy.

The example table uses the input value of 19158, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to June 14, 2012

SAS Statement	Result
put term worddate3.;	Jun
put term worddate9.;	June
put term worddate12.;	Jun 14, 2012
put term worddate20.;	June 14, 2012

Re: How to recreate the WORDDATE format with PROC FORMAT

ed_sas_member — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:46:08 GMT

Hi @PhilC

Here is an attempt to do this:

proc format;
	picture worddate_bis (default=40) low-high = '%B %d, %Y' (datatype=date);
run;

/*Test*/
data have;
	format date1 worddate. date2 worddate_bis.;
	date1 = 19158;
	date2 = 19158;
run;

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How to recreate the WORDDATE format with PROC FORMAT

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