MMYYxw. Format
Writes date values in the form mm<yy>yy or mm-<yy>yy, where the x in the format name is a character that represents
the special character that separates the month and the year, which
can be a hyphen (-), period (.), blank character, slash (/), colon
(:), or no separator; the year can be either 2 or 4 digits.
| Category: |
Date and Time |
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Syntax
Syntax Description
- x
-
identifies a separator
or specifies that no separator appear between the month and the year.
These are valid values for x:
- C
-
separates with a colon.
- D
-
separates with a hyphen.
- N
-
indicates no separator.
- P
-
separates with a period.
- S
-
separates with a forward
slash.
- w
-
specifies the width
of the output field.
Default:7
Range:5–32
Interactions:When x is
set to N, no separator is specified. The width range is then 4–32,
and the default changes to 6.
When x has
a value of C, D, P, or S and w has a value of 5 or 6, the date appears with only the last two digits
of the year. When w is 7 or
more, the date appears with a four-digit year.
When x has
a value of N and w has a value of 4 or 5, the date appears with
only the last two digits of the year. When x has a value of N and w is 6 or more, the date appears with a four-digit
year.
Details
The MMYY
xw. format writes SAS date values in one of the
following forms:
where
is an integer that
represents the month.
is a specified separator.
is a two-digit or four-digit
integer that represents the year.
Example
The following examples
use the input value of 19127, which is the SAS date value that corresponds
to May 14, 2012.