Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

194 Carpenter’s Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

Although you can use the LINE statement to write out a value contained in either a temporary

variable or a report item variable, you cannot specify the calculations themselves in the LINE

statement. In this example, the calculations of CLINPCT

t and PATPCT _ could not have been

placed on the LINE statements.

You might also notice that when variables are used on the LINE statement, they are always

followed by a format. Although a format is not required on the PUT statement, it is required on

the LINE statement.

The compute block at

p is specified as

compute n;

If instead it had b ...