Date:         Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:48:05 GMT
Reply-To:     Andreas Grueninger <grueninger@IBGRUENINGER.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Andreas Grueninger <grueninger@IBGRUENINGER.DE>
Organization: Customer of UUNET Deutschland GmbH
Subject:      Re: SAS/Base: Date Format dd-mmm-yyyyy

DATA X ;
   LENGTH cd1 $11;
   testdate = '15JAN2000'd;
   cd1 = TRANSLATE( TRIM( LEFT( PUT( testdate, WORDDATX12. ))),'-',' '
) ;
   PUT cd1=;
RUN ;

Bill_Knowlton@BAXTER.COM (Bill Knowlton) wrote:

>Is anyone privy to a SAS date format that can display dates as dd-mmm-yyyy,
>where mmm is the alphabetic month (e.g. Apr, Aug) and the separators are
>dashes.  Example resolution:  17-Jan-2000.
>
>I've cobbled together this monster for getting the look, but I loose the
>date's chronology  functionality on converting to character:
>
>  data X ;
>   length TESTDATE 4 CD1 $9 CD2 $11 ;
>   TESTDATE = input('15JAN2000',date9.) ;
>   CD1 = put(TESTDATE, date9.) ;
>   CD2 = substr(CD1,1, 2)||"-"||substr(CD1,3,3)||"-"||substr(CD1,6,4) ;
>run ;
>
>, plus this is not very appealing.
>
>Thanks for any insights.
>
>-Bill

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