Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

Chapter 7: Extending Compute Blocks 161

Extending Compute Blocks

Using an Alias

Weight in Pounds

region Min Max Range

1 195 195 0

10 163 177 14

2 105 115 10

3 105 195 90

4 131 201 70

5 98 215 117

6 175 240 65

7 147 155 8

8 158 162 4

9 147 215 68

Notice the use of the compound names in the compute block assignment statement o. Because

WTMAX is an alias, the following assignment statement would not work:

wt_range = wtmax.max - wt.min;

Nor could we ignore the compound name for the analysis variable WT. The following assignment

statement would also fail.

wt_range = wtmax - wt;

In the early versions of PROC REPORT, variable aliases ...