Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

Chapter 7: Extending Compute Blocks 171

Extending Compute Blocks

Using COMPUTE to Supply Summary Text

Years of

Region Education Height Weight

Mid West 14.31 66.85 172.54

No. East 13.25 67.33 138.17

So. East 15.00 69.00 159.14

Western 12.63 67.25 182.00

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Co 13.78 67.45 161.78

Notice that only the first two letters of the word ‘Combined’ are displayed. This is because

REGION is a $2 variable, and although a width of 10 has been specified, only the first two letters

will fit into the variable. This problem is addressed in Section 7.4.2.

A problem can also occur if you try to assign a value of the wrong ...