The FORMAT Procedure

Example 10: Creating a Format in a non-English Language

Procedure features:

PICTURE statement options:

	DATATYPE=
	LANGUAGE=

This example does the following:

specifies directives for formatting date, time, and datetime values by using the DATATYPE= statement option
specifies a language for the format by using the LANGUAGE= statement option
creates the ALLTEST format

Program

proc format;
   picture mdy(default=8) other='%0m%0d%Y' (datatype=date);
   picture langtsda (default=50) other='%A, %B,%d, %Y' (datatype=date);
   picture langtsdt (default=50) other='%A, %B,%d, %Y' (datatype=datetime);
   picture langtsfr (default=50) other='%A, %B,%d, %Y' (datatype=datetime
                                                                                                language=french);
   picture alltest (default=100)
                other='%a %A %b %B %d %H %I %j %m %M %p %S
                             %w %U %y %%' (datatype=datetime);
run;

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