topic Year and Month in SAS Procedures

Year and Month

renjithr — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:37:26 GMT

Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to populate a field with year and month.

eg: 201201

Any suggestions?

Haikuo — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:57:06 GMT

'populate a field with year and month' from what??

Suppose that your source is date variable. Although you can concatenate all the way to your target, proc format seems to have an edge:

proc format;

picture my_yearmon

low-high='%Y%0m'(datatype=date);

run;

data test;

format a date9.;

a=date();

b=put(a,my_yearmon6.);

run;

proc print;run;

Haikuo

renjithr — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:17:44 GMT

Thank you Hai.kuo!

Howles — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:04:54 GMT

The YYMMN6. format should do it.

Haikuo — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:11:33 GMT

Thanks for sharing! Yes, It does work! It is strange I can't find the doc, I could only locate it as informat, but not format from 9.2 online docs:

Regards,

Haikuo