ENDDATE

For expressions dimensioned by a dimension of type DAY, WEEK, MONTH, QUARTER, or YEAR, the ENDDATE function returns the final date of the last time period in the dimension status for which the expression has a non-NA value. For example, when an expression is dimensioned by a dimension of type MONTH, and when DEC98 is the last dimension value for which the expression has a non-NA value, ENDDATE returns the date December 31, 1998.

Return Value

DATE or text (see "Automatic Conversion of DATE Values to Text Values")

Syntax

ENDDATE(expression)

Arguments

expression: The expression must have exactly one dimension that has the type of DAY, WEEK, MONTH, QUARTER, or YEAR. When all the values of the expression are NA, ENDDATE returns NA.

Examples

Example 11-25 Finding the End Date

The following statements limit the values of the dimensions of the units variable, then sends the last date associated with a non-NA value to the current outfile.

LIMIT month TO ALL
LIMIT product TO 'Tents'
LIMIT district TO 'Chicago'
SHOW ENDDATE(units)

These statements produce the following output.

31DEC96