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imdickson
Quartz | Level 8

Hi, i currently have a script to convert from yymmn6. (201801) to mmmYYYY (jan2018).

However, if it is march, i want it to be converted to mac, instead of mar as default.

 

my script:

%let period=201808;

data _null_;
	monthyr=input("&period",yymmn6.);
	call symputx('month',lowcase(cats(put(monthyr,worddate3.),year(monthyr))));
run;
%put &=month;

%put &month;

%if %substr(&month,1,3) eq 'mar' %then %do;
	%sysfunc(tranwrd(&month,'mar','mac'))
%end;

 

I had no luck at all. What actually wrong here?

 

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Use Base SAS, previously mentioned several times.

%let period=201808;

data _null_;
  monthyr=input("&period",yymmn6.);
  result=lowcase(cats(put(monthyr,worddate3.),year(monthyr)));
  result=tranwrd(result,"mar","mac");
  call symputx('month',result);
run;

%put &month.;

However, I cannot stress this enough, avoid using such structures in filenames/code.  If you need to have date on something use ISO dates - they are sortable, and processable without language issues (i.e. in your case here), do not have upper/lower case issues, and can be partial without issue.  This is what mostly everyone else uses, its an international standard for a reason.

 

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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Use Base SAS, previously mentioned several times.

%let period=201808;

data _null_;
  monthyr=input("&period",yymmn6.);
  result=lowcase(cats(put(monthyr,worddate3.),year(monthyr)));
  result=tranwrd(result,"mar","mac");
  call symputx('month',result);
run;

%put &month.;

However, I cannot stress this enough, avoid using such structures in filenames/code.  If you need to have date on something use ISO dates - they are sortable, and processable without language issues (i.e. in your case here), do not have upper/lower case issues, and can be partial without issue.  This is what mostly everyone else uses, its an international standard for a reason.

 

imdickson
Quartz | Level 8

Thanks @RW9 . I would definitely adapt to your suggestion. Very much appreciated.

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