Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Generating Your First HTML File

Creating an HTML file from your SAS results is quite simple. You need just three things: a file to send the results to, an instruction to ODS to open the file and start generating HTML tags, and an instruction to ODS to stop generating HTML tags and close the file.

The first thing you need to do is specify a file for your output. You can specify the file directly when you call ODS to create the HTML output, or you can create a filename reference ahead of time and use that in the ODS call. If you choose to create a filename reference, the syntax, which is coded specific to your operating system, is something like this:

filename myfile 'myhtmlfile.html';

The filename should end in ".html" (or ".htm") in order for ...