WEEKDAYw. Format

Writes date values as the day of the week.
Category: Date and Time
Alignment: right
Syntax
Details
Example
See Also

Syntax

WEEKDAYw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field.
Default:1
Range:1–32

Details

The WEEKDAYw. format writes a SAS date value as the day of the week (where 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, and so on).

Example

The example table uses the input value of 19025, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to February 2, 2012.
SAS Statement
Result 
 
----+----1
 
put date weekday.;
 
5

See Also

Formats:
DOWNAMEw. Format
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