Date:         Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:27:35 -0500
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From:         "data _null_," <datanull@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: extracting the month from a date in date9. format
Comments: To: shashi <shashi2707@gmail.com>
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Use the FORMAT WORDDATE3.

data _null_;
   do i = today() to today()+356 by 30;
      month=put(i,worddate3.);
      putlog 'NOTE: ' I=date9. I=worddate3. month=;
      end;
   run;

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:07 AM, shashi <shashi2707@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> How do we extract the month from a date in date9. format in SAS?
> example:  from  20mar2008, I want the month as 'mar' not as 3.
>