EURDFDEw. Informat

Reads international date values.

Category:

Date and Time

Syntax

Details

Example

Syntax

EURDFDEw.

Required Argument

w: specifies the width of the input field.

Default:7 (except Finnish)

Range:7–32 (except Finnish)

Note:If you use the Finnish (FIN) language prefix, the w range is 10–32 and the default w is 10.

Details

The date values must be in the form ddmmmyy or ddmmmyyyy:

is an integer from 01–31 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 place blanks and other special characters between day, month, and year values.

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: UNIX, Windows, and z/OS for the list of language prefixes . When you specify the language prefix in the informat, SAS ignores the DFLANG= system option.

Example

This INPUT statement uses the value of the DFLANG= system option to read the international date values in Spanish.

options dflang=spanish;
input day eurdfde10.;

This INPUT statement uses the Spanish language prefix in the informat to read the international date values in Spanish. The value of the DFLANG= option, therefore, is ignored.

input day espdfde10.;

options dflang=spanish;
data _null_;
input day eurdfde10.;
 put day;
datalines;
01abr1999
01-abr-99
;

Values	Results
	----+----1
01abr1999	14335
01-abr-99	14335