Date:         Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:52:19 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Character values to month
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> From: DP
>
> Can anyone please tell me how to convert a character value to
> month? For
> instance, convert '1' to Jan, '2' to Feb, '3' to Mar, etc...
> One thing I can think of is to create a format and then apply
> the format to
> the variable. Is there another efficient way of doing this?

you will have to use two function to do this

convert string to date-number: mdy('1','1','1960')
convert date-number to string put(number,monyy.)

untested

Do Txt = '1' to '9';
   Mon3 = substr(put(mdy(Txt,'1','1960')
                    ,monyy.)
                ,1,3);
   end;

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov