Date:         Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:33:13 -0700
Reply-To:     "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
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From:         "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: Unfinished SAS-L Live from Miami Beach business
Comments: To: Ray Pass <raypass@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <4.1.19990419172528.00caa2a0@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
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Here's my standard chunk of code for all my batch jobs (the "source" does change however:
 
data _null_;
   call symput("fdate",trim(left(put("&sysdate"d,worddate.))));
run;
*******************************************************************************;
*-- our standard footnotes;
footnote1 "Source: DHS' CY 1996 - 1998 Medi-Cal inpatient paid claims tapes";
footnote2 "Prepared by: Viergever & Associates, Sacramento, CA";
footnote3 "[&pgm1..sas, &systime &sysday, &fdate]";
*******************************************************************************;
 
.......
 
which generates:
 
 
Source: DHS' CY 1996 - 1998 Medi-Cal inpatient paid claims tapes
Prepared by: Viergever & Associates, Sacramento, CA
[hfpa.0431.cmac.rates.sas, 15:38 Wednesday, April 7, 1999]
 
HTH
 
 
 
At 05:43 PM 4/19/99 -0400, Ray Pass wrote:
>In one of the more lively discussions at the session, the question to be
>answered was how to put the automatic variable &sysdate out in a footnote
>with a format other than the default date7.  Since none of us were syntax
>certified, we couldn't quite come up with the correct code at the moment,
>although we knew how to do it.  I forgot about it for a few days and I just
>now remembered to post "an" answer.
>
>One solution would be to use the today() function instead of the &sysdate
>automatic variable, and take advantage of the fact that the %sysfunc
>function can have an output format associated with it.  It's easy enough:
>
>footnote "%sysfunc(today(),mmddyy10.)";
>
>Of course you can use any output date format you like.  I leave it to my
>colleague DR to post the non %sysfunc solution (with or without &sysdate)
>since he was in such an anti-%sysfunc at the time :-)   Go Dave!
>
>Ray
>
>
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