MMYYw. Format

Writes date values in the form mmM<yy>yy, where M is the separator and the year appears as either 2 or 4 digits.
Category: Date and Time
Alignment: right

Syntax

MMYYw.

Syntax Description

w
specifies the width of the output field.
Default:7
Range:5–32
Interaction:When 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.

Details

The MMYYw. format writes SAS date values in the form mmM<yy>yy, where
mm
is an integer that represents the month.
M
is the character separator.
<yy>yy
is a two-digit or four-digit integer that represents the year.

Example

The following examples use the input value of 19291, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to October 25, 2012.
SAS Statement
Result
 
----+----1----+
put date mmyy5.;
10M12
put date mmyy6.;
 10M12
put date mmyy.;
10M2012
put date mmyy7.;
10M2012
put date mmyy10.;
   10M2012

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