SAS® Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9

Chapter 7. Creating and Applying User-Defined Formats

Overview	190
Introduction	190
Objectives	190
Introduction to PROC FORMAT	190
Invoking PROC FORMAT	191
Defining a Unique Format	193
Specifying Value Ranges	194
Defining Multiple Formats	195
Associating User-Defined Formats with Variables	196
Referencing Your Formats	196
Assigning Your Formats to Variables	197
Displaying a List of Your Formats	199
Summary	200
Text Summary	200
Points to Remember	200
Practice	200
Quiz	201

Overview

Introduction

In Chapter 4, Creating List Reports, you learned to associate formats with variables either temporarily or permanently.

But sometimes you might want to create custom formats for displaying variable ...