topic Re: Keep leading spaces and blank records in ODS and Base Reporting

Keep leading spaces and blank records

Neeta — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:03:02 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to create demographics table. For alignment purpose I'm using a macro described in following paper.

http://www.pharmasug.org/proceedings/2013/CC/PharmaSUG-2013-CC15.pdf

My problem is, I'm able to get aligned values in dataset but when I'm using proc report to output in ODS rtf, all the leading blanks, used for alignment are lost. I tried using other characters like << instead of blanks and it's working fine. Looks like only blanks has some problem. I also tried style(column)={asis=on}; but still its removing all leading blank spaces.

Please help!

Re: Keep leading spaces and blank records

Ksharp — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 01:17:02 GMT

1) style(column)={pretext=' '}; 2) use TAB character '09'x instead of white blank . 3) use escapechar : data new; set have; column='~_~_~_~_'||column; run; ods escapechar='~'; proc report data=new nowd.

Re: Keep leading spaces and blank records

RW9 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:58:59 GMT

Hi,

This is something I do alot and asis=on should work fine. Try the code below, make sure you have put the asis in the right place, and that the spaces are actually in the data - i.e. is there something triming or stripping the data&colon;

data have;
  a="Abcd"; output;
  a="  Defg"; output;
run;
ods rtf file="s:\temp\rob\tmp.rtf";
proc report data=have nowd;
  columns a;
  define a / style(column)={asis=on};
run;
ods rtf close;

Re: Keep leading spaces and blank records

ballardw — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:53:05 GMT

It may help to show exactly how you made your data, some example data and the whole code for that example data that you attempted and what isn't quite working.

It would also help to show exactly how you would desire the output to look for the example data.

Re: Keep leading spaces and blank records

crow — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:42:51 GMT

HI!

This code will not work for RTF. ASIS=ON applicable for LISTING and HTML outputs.

Have a look at your tmp.rtf file.

BRGDS,

Crow

Re: Keep leading spaces and blank records

RW9 — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:13:10 GMT

This code works exactly as it is intended producing the output shown in the picture

which is correct with spacing presented. It is also widely documented as being used in RTF by other people such as:

https://www.lexjansen.com/phuse/2007/cs/CS08.pdf

Please avoid re-opening 3.5 year old threads just to post incorrect information.