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User-Specified Text Flow InsideThe Report ProcedureDonald W. Peterson, PSCI Progressive Software Computing Inc., Wilmington, DEJohn R. Gerlach, Maxim Group, Plymouth Meeting, PAAbstractThe FLOW option of the Report procedure inSAS allows the user to include lengthy text in a report bywrapping the text within a specified column width. Thispowerful feature splits the text using the so-called splitcharacter, as well as the blank character. The text isalways left justified, not allowing any kind of indentation,unless you insert blank characters accordingly, which isvery tedious. This paper explains the %flowvar macrothat modifies the character variable allowing the FLOW option to produce indented text, beginning after the firstline for each observation in a Report procedure, made available in Version6, superseded the DATA _null_ step and introduced theSAS user to new ways to produce sophisticated features as using ACROSS variables that becomecolumn headers and generating descriptive statistics thatbecome part of the report exemplify the power of theReport procedure, especia
User-Specified Text Flow Inside The Report Procedure Donald W. Peterson, PSCI – Progressive Software Computing Inc., Wilmington, DE John R. Gerlach, Maxim Group, Plymouth Meeting, PA
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