NLSTRQTRw.d Format

Writes a numeric value as the quarter-of-the-year in the specified locale.

Category:	Numeric
Alignment:	left

Syntax

Details

Example

Syntax

NLSTRQTRw.d

Syntax Description

w: specifies the width of the output field

Default:20

Range:1–200

d

specifies the following:

00000001: write abbreviated form.
00000010: write capitalized form.

Default:3

Range:0–3

Details

The NLSTRQTRw.d format writes a SAS value, 1–4 as the name-of-the-quarter for the year in the specified locale. The following examples use the English_UnitedStates locale.

1 = 1st quarter
2 = 2nd quarter
3 = 3rd quarter
4 = 4th quarter

Example

This example uses the English_UnitedStates session encoding.

Statements	Results
Data _null_ ; qtrnum = 1 ; /* January=1, December=12 / put qtrnum NLSTRQTR20. ; put qtrnum NLSTRQTR20.1; / decimal .1 specified use abbreviation. */ put qtrnum NLSTRQTR20.2; put qtrnum NLSTRQTR20.3; run;	1st quarter 1st quarter 1ST QUARTER 1ST QUARTER