Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS REPORT Procedure

Chapter 4: Only in the LISTING Destination 83

You can also create lines of text using only repeat characters.

* Splitting text headers in the DEFINE statement;

title1 'Only in LISTING';

title2 'Text Line with ONLY Repeated Text';

proc report data=rptdata.clinics nowd split='*';

column region sex ('Patient Weight'wt,(n mean));

define region / group;

define sex / across 'Sex';

define wt / analysis '(lb)*__';

run;

In this example, the repeat character is an underscore ( _ ). When forming lines, this character

translates well to other fonts, although it does not appear as a solid line in all fonts. The following

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