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Rish
Calcite | Level 5

Gurus -

I want to pull only the month from the datasets. Currently the date is stored as example 12Aug2012. I just need Aug.

Thanks in advance.

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ballardw
Super User

Is the value a SAS date, i.e. numeric with a default format of Date9. or is it string?

If a SAS date then you can change the format Monname3. and it will display as Aug.

If need to select a specific month (not including year) of data you can use

if month(datevariablename) = 8; or the number of the month you want if the variable is a SAS date.

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ballardw
Super User

Is the value a SAS date, i.e. numeric with a default format of Date9. or is it string?

If a SAS date then you can change the format Monname3. and it will display as Aug.

If need to select a specific month (not including year) of data you can use

if month(datevariablename) = 8; or the number of the month you want if the variable is a SAS date.

Rish
Calcite | Level 5

Hi Ballarw -

If we are using proc sql example Select Month(xxxdate) gives me numeric "8", do you know how to change it to display "Aug".

Thanks


PGStats
Opal | Level 21

You can use

select month(xxxdate) as month format=NLSTRMON3.1, ...

this works for locale=English_UnitedStates, for other locales you must adjust the field width. For example, for locale=French_Canada, you must use NLSTRMON5.1 .

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