Additional NLS Language Elements

EURDFMNw. Format

Writes international date values as the name of the month.

Category:	Date and Time
Alignment:	right

Syntax
Syntax Description
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Examples
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Syntax

EURDFMNw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default:	9 (except for Finnish and Spanish)
Range:	1-32

Note: If you use the Finnish (FIN) language prefix, the default value for w is 11. If you use the Spanish (ESP) language prefix, the default value for w is 10. [cautionend]

Details

If necessary, SAS truncates the name of the month to fit the format width. The EURDFMNw. format writes SAS date values in the form month-name:

month-name: is the name of the month.

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 will be 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 like UTF-8. [cautionend]

Examples

The example table uses the input value 15344, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to January 4, 2002. The first PUT statement assumes that the DFLANG= system option is set to Italian.

options dflang=ita;

The second PUT statement uses the Italian language prefix in the format to write the name of the month in Italian. The third PUT statement uses German language prefix in the format to write the name of the month in German. Therefore, the value of the DFLANG= option is ignored.

Statements	Results
	----+----1
put date eurdfmn10.;	janvier
put date itadfmn10.;	Gennaio
put date deudfmn10.;	Januar