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YYQRw. Format



Writes date values in the form <yy>yyQqr, where Q is the separator, the year appears as either 2 or 4 digits, and qr is the quarter of the year expressed in roman numerals.
Category: Date and Time
Alignment: right

Syntax
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Syntax

YYQRw.

Syntax Description

w

specifies the width of the output field.

Default: 8
Range: 6-32
Interaction: When the value of w is too small to write a four-digit year, the date appears with only the last two digits of the year.

Details

The YYQRw. format writes SAS date values in the form <yy>yyQqr, where

<yy>yy

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

Q

is the character separator.

qr

is a roman numeral (I, II, III, or IV) that represents the quarter of the year.


Examples

The following examples use the input value of 16601, which is the SAS date value that corresponds to June 14, 2005.

SAS Statement Result
 
----+----1----+
put date yyqr6.;
 05QII
put date yyqr7.;
2005QII
put date yyqr.;
 2005QII
put date yyqr8.;
 2005QII
put date yyqr10.;
   2005QII


See Also

Format:

YYQw. Format

YYQRxw. Format

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