YYMMxw. Format
Writes date values in the form <yy>yymm or
<yy>yy-mm.
The x in the format name represents
the special character that separates the year and the month. This
special character can be a hyphen (-), period (.), slash (/), colon
(:), or no separator. The year can be either two or four digits.
Syntax
Syntax Description
- x
-
identifies a separator
or specifies that no separator appear between the year and the month.
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 YYMM
xw.
format writes SAS date values in one of the following forms:
where
is a two-digit or four-digit
integer that represents the year.
is a specified separator.
is an integer that
represents the month.
Example
The following examples
use the input value of 19127, which is the SAS date value that corresponds
to May 14, 2012.