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renjithr
Quartz | Level 8

Hi,

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

eg: 201201

Any suggestions?

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

'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
Quartz | Level 8

Thank you Hai.kuo!

Howles
Quartz | Level 8

The YYMMN6. format should do it.

Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15

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:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000363557.htm

Regards,

Haikuo

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