SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

Additional Features

When you create list reports, you can use several other features to enhance your procedure output. For example, you can

• control where text strings split in labels by using the SPLIT= option.

  proc print data=reps split='*'; 
     var salesrep type unitsold net commission; 
     label salesrep='Sales*Representative'; 
  run;
  

• create your own formats, which are particularly useful for formatting character values.

  proc format; 
     value $repfmt 
            'TFB'='Bynum' 
            'MDC'='Crowley' 
            'WKK'='King'; 
  run;
  proc print data=vcrsales; 
     var salesrep type unitsold; 
     format salesrep $repfmt.; 
  run;
  

  You can learn more about user-defined formats in Creating and Applying User-Defined Formats .