I want to identify previous month full name .i.e. If current month is September then I want to retrieve August. Currently I am going with the below approach but this will fail for the month January. Please assist
month = month(input("&sysdate9",date9.)); lastmonth = int(month) - 1; put(lastmonth,nlstrmon.);
Since you have nearly working code, you could tweak it simply:
if month = 1 then lastmonth = 12;
else lastmonth = month - 1;
If you wanted to get into the depths of how SAS works with dates, you could modify your first statement:
lastmonth = month( intnx('month', "&sysdate9"d, -1));
As before, that gives you the month number which still has be to converted to the name.
You can use monname format:
month_name=PUT(date,monname.);
But be aware that this takes a date value as input.
format prev_month $20.;
Prev_month = put((INTNX('month', today(), -1, 'B')),monname.);
Since you have nearly working code, you could tweak it simply:
if month = 1 then lastmonth = 12;
else lastmonth = month - 1;
If you wanted to get into the depths of how SAS works with dates, you could modify your first statement:
lastmonth = month( intnx('month', "&sysdate9"d, -1));
As before, that gives you the month number which still has be to converted to the name.
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