The FORMAT Procedure

Example 6: Printing the Description of Informats and Formats

Procedure features:

PROC FORMAT statement option:

FMTLIB

SELECT statement

Format:

NOZEROS .

Informat:

EVAL. .

This example illustrates how to print a description of an informat and a format. The description shows the values that are input and output.

Program

libname library 'SAS-data-library';

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=80 pagesize=60;

proc format library=library fmtlib;

   select @eval nozeros;
   title 'FMTLIB Output for the NOZEROS. Format and the';
   title2 'EVAL. Informat';
run;

Output

FMTLIB Output for the NOZEROS. Format and the 1 EVAL. Informat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | FORMAT NAME: NOZEROS LENGTH: 5 NUMBER OF VALUES: 4 | | MIN LENGTH: 1 MAX LENGTH: 40 DEFAULT LENGTH 5 FUZZ: STD | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| |START |END |LABEL (VER. 7.01 30JUN97:14:16:24) | |----------------+----------------+----------------------------------------| |LOW | -1|00.00 P- F M100 | | -1< 0<99 P-. F M100 | | 0| 1<99 P. F M100 | | 1|HIGH |00.00 P F M100 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | INFORMAT NAME: @EVAL LENGTH: 1 NUMBER OF VALUES: 5 | | MIN LENGTH: 1 MAX LENGTH: 40 DEFAULT LENGTH 1 FUZZ: 0 | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------| |START |END |INVALUE(VER. 7.01 30JUN97:14:16:25) | |----------------+----------------+----------------------------------------| |C |C | 1| |E |E | 2| |N |N | 0| |O |O | 4| |S |S | 3| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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