Creating Custom Formats Using the PICTURE Statement
Overview
You
have learned that the VALUE statement can associate a text label with
a discrete numeric or character value. Suppose you want to insert
text characters into a numeric value. For example, you might have
stored phone numbers as numeric values like 1111231234 that you want
to display as
(111) 123-1234. You can
use the PICTURE statement to create a template for printing numbers.
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General form, PROC FORMAT
with the PICTURE statement:
PROC FORMAT;
PICTURE format-name
value-or-range='picture';
RUN;
format-name
is the name of the
format that you are creating.
value-or-range
is the individual value or range of values that you want ... |
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