Transcription of SUGI 27: PROC FORMAT in Action - SAS
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SUGI 27: PROC FORMAT in Action - SAS
Paper 56-27 PROC FORMAT in ActionJack N Shoemaker, ThotWave Technologies, Cary, NCABSTRACTThe PROC FORMAT subsystem provides an efficient and compactway to store all sorts of facts and data for data-driven paper will focus on PROC FORMAT in Action . That is,building user-defined formats from existing tables and using PROCFORMAT in conjunction with other SAS procedures likeSUMMARY, FREQ, TABULATE, REPORT, and PRINT. Sincethese other SAS procedures are FORMAT -aware, judicious use ofuser-defined formats can save hours of coding and result in morerobust, data-driven IS SAS ?That may seem like an odd question to pose to a group of SAS programmers and developers.
proc format; value sex 1 = ‘Female’ 2 = ‘Male’; run; The code above will create a numeric format called SEX. The PROC FORMAT block contains three statements each terminating wit a semicolon. The first statement calls PROC FORMAT. The second statement is a value clause that defines the name and contents of the user-defined format.
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