NLSTRMONw.d Format

Writes the month name in the specified locale.

Category:	Numeric
Alignment:	left

Syntax

Details

Example

Syntax

NLSTRMONw.d

Syntax Description

w: specifies the width of the output field

Default:20

Range:200-1

d

specifies the following:

00000001: write abbreviated form.
00000010: write capitalized form.

Default:0

Range:0-3

Details

The NLSTRMONw.d format writes a SAS value, 1–12 as the name-of-the-month in the specified locale. The following examples use the English_UnitedStates locale.

1 = the first month (January)
2 = the second month (February)
3 = the third month (March)
4 = the fourth month (April)
5 = the fifth month (May)
6 = the sixth month (June)
7 = the seventh month (July)
8 = the eight month (August)
9 = the ninth month (September)
10 = the tenth month (October)
11 = the eleventh month (November)
12 = the twelfth month (December)

Example

This example uses the English_UnitedStates session encoding.

Statements	Results
Data _null_ ; monnum = 1 ; /* January=1, December=12 / put monnum NLSTRMON20. ; put monnum NLSTRMON20.1; / decimal .1 specified use abbreviation. */ put monnum NLSTRMON20.2; put monnum NLSTRMON20.3; run;	January Jan JANUARY JAN