YYQxw. Format
Writes date values in the form <yy>yyq or <yy>yy-q, where the x in the format name is a character that represents the special character
that separates the year and the quarter or 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 |
| Alignment: |
right |
Syntax
Syntax Description
- x
-
identifies a separator
or specifies that no separator appear between the year and the quarter.
Valid values for x are:
- 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:6
Range:4–32
Interactions:When x is
set to N, no separator is specified.
The width range is then 3–32, and the default changes to 5.
When w has
a value of 4 or 5, the date appears with only the last two digits
of the year. When w is 6 or
more, the date appears with a four-digit year.
When x has
a value of N and w has a value of 3 or 4, the date appears with
only the last two digits of the year. When x has a value of N and w is 5 or more, the date appears with a four-digit
year.
Details
The YYQ
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 (1,2,3,
or 4) that represents the quarter of the year.
Example
The following examples
use the input value of 19188, which is the SAS date value that corresponds
to July 14, 2012.