Transcription of SUGI 27: PROC FORMAT in Action - SAS Support
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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 ?
the “code” in the application – the PROC FREQ in our simple example – from the “data” – that is, the input data set and translation data which de-references the coded values of sex. For example, we can easily modify our initial definition of SEX. to include a translation
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