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

Overview

Introduction

If you read Creating List Reports, you learned to associate formats with variables either temporarily or permanently.

Variable and Format

But sometimes you might want to create custom formats for displaying variable values. For example, you can format a product number so that it is displayed as descriptive text, as shown below.

Variable and Custom Format

Using the FORMAT procedure, you can define your own formats for variables. You can store your formats temporarily or permanently, and you can display a list of all ...