EURDFDEw. Format

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default:	7 (except Finnish)
Range:	5-9 (except Finnish)

Note:   If you use the Finnish (FIN) language prefix, the w range is 9-10 and the default is 9.  

The EURDFDEw. format writes SAS date values in the form ddmmmyy or ddmmmyyyy:

dd

is an integer that represents the day of the month.

mmm

is the first three letters of the month name.

yy or yyyy

is a two-digit or four-digit integer that represents the year.

You can set the language for the SAS session with the DFLANG= system option. (Because the SAS Installation Representative usually sets a default language for the site, you might be able to skip this step.) If you work with dates in multiple languages, you can replace the EUR prefix with a language prefix. See DFLANG= System Option: OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows, and z/OS for the list of language prefixes. When you specify the language prefix in the format, SAS ignores the DFLANG= option.

Note:   The EUR-date formats require European character sets and encodings. Some formats do not work correctly using non-European encodings. When running in a DBCS environment, the default format width and max width are larger than in the single byte system to allow formats to use a double byte representation of certain characters. However, you must use a session encoding that supports the European characters set, such as UTF-8.  

The example table uses the input value 15342, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to January 2, 2002. The first PUT statement assumes that the DFLANG= system option is set to Spanish.

options dflang=spanish;

The second PUT statement uses the Spanish language prefix in the format to write the international date value in Spanish. The third PUT statement uses the French language prefix in the format to write the international date value in French. Therefore, the value of the DFLANG= option is ignored.

----+----1

put date eurdfde9.; 

02ene2002

put date espdfde9.; 

02ene2002

put date fradfde9.; 

02jan2002

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