Functions and CALL Routines

QTR Function

Returns the quarter of the year from a SAS date value.

Category:

Date and Time

Syntax

QTR(date)

date: specifies a numeric constant, variable, or expression that represents a SAS date value.

The QTR function returns a value of 1, 2, 3, or 4 from a SAS date value to indicate the quarter of the year in which a date value falls.

The following SAS statements produce these results.

SAS Statements	Results
x='20jan94'd; y=qtr(x); put y=;	y=1