Hi,
I have a requirement where I need to populate a field with year and month.
eg: 201201
Any suggestions?
'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
Thank you Hai.kuo!
The YYMMN6. format should do it.
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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