topic Re: How to print a character column of a dataset with numeric value having some format in proc repor in ODS and Base Reporting

How to print a character column of a dataset with numeric value having some format in proc report

megha_sinha — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:29:05 GMT

Hi Team,

I ahve a character column in sas dataset wth values like "100000" and "20000" etc.

Ia hve to use proc report

While getting dispalyed in excel sheet the numeric value should get displayed as 100,000.00

Plesea suggest

Re: How to print a character column of a dataset with numeric value having some format in proc repor

Shmuel — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:47:13 GMT

You need just to change to excel column format.

Re: How to print a character column of a dataset with numeric value having some format in proc repor

RW9 — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 12:48:46 GMT

Yes, this is an Excel "feature", much like if you send out 0001, it will change it to 1. The way around this is to to tell Excel what the format of the data is (rather than let it guess). To do this you send extra tags out to the tagset output:

ods tagsets.excelxp file="....xlsx";
proc report data=have nowd;
  columns _all_;
  define abc / style={tagattr='...'};
run;
..

Here is a paper on it, you would set you tag as text for that, so its displayed as is.

http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/031-2010.pdf