YYMMxw. Format

Writes date values in the form <yy>yymm or <yy>yy-mm. The x in the format name represents the special character that separates the year and the month. This special character can be a hyphen (-), period (.), slash (/), colon (:), or no separator. The year can be either two or four digits.

Syntax

YYMMxw.

Syntax Description

x
identifies a separator or specifies that no separator appear between the year and the month. These are valid values for x:
C
separates with a colon.
D
separates with a hyphen.
N
indicates no separator.
P
separates with a period.
S
separates with a forward slash.
w
specifies the width of the output field.
Default:7
Range:5–32
Interactions:When x is set to N, no separator is specified. The width range is then 4–32, and the default changes to 6.

When x has a value of C, D, P, or S and w has a value of 5 or 6, the date appears with only the last two digits of the year. When w is 7 or more, the date appears with a four-digit year.

When x has a value of N and w has a value of 4 or 5, the date appears with only the last two digits of the year. When x has a value of N and w is 6 or more, the date appears with a four-digit year.

Details

The YYMMxw. format writes SAS date values in one of the following forms:
<yy>yymm
<yy>yyXmm
where
<yy>yy
is a two-digit or four-digit integer that represents the year.
x
is a specified separator.
mm
is an integer that represents the month.

Example

The following examples use the input value of 19127, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to May 14, 2012.
SAS Statement
Result
 
----+----1----+
put date yymmc5.;
12:05
put date yymmd.;
2012-05
put date yymmn4.;
1205
put date yymmp8.;
 2012.05
put date yymms10.;
   2012/05

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