The Little SAS® Book for Enterprise Guide® 4.1

3.2. Applying Standard Formats in a Task

Every time you run a task that produces a report, SAS Enterprise Guide decides how the data should be displayed. That’s good, but sometimes the way that SAS Enterprise Guide displays data may not be exactly what you want. You can apply a format in a Data Grid, but then the format will be saved with the data table. To avoid that, you can apply the format directly in a task.

Here is the Eruptions data set. The previous section showed how to apply the format WEEKDATEw.d to the variable StartDate in a Data Grid. This example uses the List Data task to show how you can apply the same format in a task.

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