Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS 9.4, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Chapter 32

Writing Lines to the SAS Log or to

an Output File

Introduction to Writing Lines to the SAS Log or to an Output File . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Understanding the PUT Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Writing Output without Creating a Data Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Writing Simple Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Writing a Character String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Writing Variable Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599

Writing on the Same Line More Than Once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

Releasing a Held Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

Writing a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Writing to an Output File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Designing the Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Writing Data Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Improving the Appearance of Numeric Data Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Writing a Value at the Beginning of Each BY Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606

Calculating Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607

Writing Headings and Footnotes for a One-Page Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

Learning More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Introduction to Writing Lines to the SAS Log or to

an Output File

Purpose

In previous sections you learned how to store data values in a SAS data set and to use

SAS procedures to produce a report that is based on these data values. In this section,

you will learn how to do the following:

• design output by positioning data values and character strings in an output file

• prevent SAS from creating a data set by using the DATA _NULL_ statement

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