topic Re: ODS RTF character incorect in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS RTF character incorect

Felix_ — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:11:54 GMT

Hi Community,

I modified a product ID in a dataset following if a Special condition is true:

num_extend = CATT("°", num);

So in the dataset there are num:extends like this:

°1234

2345

3456

°4567

...

When i print a table on a RTF file it generates following:

Is there an Option preventing this?

Thank you in advance & best regards,

Felix

Re: ODS RTF character incorect

RW9 — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:36:07 GMT

Avoid using that at all, just add a superscript element:

data ...;
  num_extend=cats('^super{o}',num);
run;

ods escaechar="^";

proc report data=...
run;

That should put a small o before it, or you could put out the specfic character using escape codes. The problem I see is that you have a special character in your code, writing to a text file, then read by Word and processed. Any of those processes could either change or not understand that symbol.

Re: ODS RTF character incorect

Felix_ — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:14:16 GMT

Thank you for the Suggestion. Unfortunately this is even worse.

In the RTF Output it Shows following:

supero1234

super2345

super3456

supero5678

... maybe i have to take just another Symbol to indicate the numbers.

Re: ODS RTF character incorect

RW9 — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:16:59 GMT

Sorry, got the bracket in the wrong place, should be:

data ...;
  num_extend=cats('^{super o}',num);
run;

ods escaechar="^";

proc report data=...
run;

You can find out about this in the paper:

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/099-2007.pdf

Re: ODS RTF character incorect

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:59:54 GMT

Link was broken for me...here's the link that worked:
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2007/099-2007.pdf

cynthia