EURDFDEw. Informat

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.  

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

dd

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.

Note:   SAS interprets a two-digit year as belonging to the 100-year span that is defined by the YEARCUTOFF= system option.  

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 informat, SAS ignores the DFLANG= system option.

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.;

----+----1

01abr1999

14335

01-abr-99

14335

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