topic Re: Is it possible put 'invisible' character elements in proc report? in ODS and Base Reporting

Is it possible put 'invisible' character elements in proc report?

DmytroYermak — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 07:32:18 GMT

Hi, is it possible put 'invisible' character elements in proc report?

Re: Is it possible put 'invisible' character elements in proc report?

RW9 — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:57:47 GMT

Well, ods escapechar tells SAS what character(s) to use to indicate an escape code, so you don't want ~w as the characters only the ~:

ods escapechar="~";

Note how I don't code all in uppercase.

Now I don;t know where your ~w is coming in, is it in the data, if so that change should work (and assuming w is a real code). If not post some full code so can see. Also, one option to remember on proc report is asis, which if you have spaces will show them, rather than trimming:

define var / style=(asis=on);

Re: Is it possible put 'invisible' character elements in proc report?

Ksharp — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:59:50 GMT

firstly, use
ods escapechar="~";

then  ~_  stands for a white blank .

Re: Is it possible put 'invisible' character elements in proc report?

DmytroYermak — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:00:50 GMT

Thank you! I can review thoroughly a little bit later on, sorry for that.

Re: Is it possible put 'invisible' character elements in proc report?

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:34:04 GMT

Hi, the ESCAPECHAR sequence of ESCAPECHAR+underscore is an older form of syntax that was first introduced in SAS 8.3 to insert a "non-breaking space" -- not necessarily the same as a "white space".

The newer syntax is
ESCAPECHAR+{NBSPACE 1}.

So if Escapechar is defined at ~, then instead of ~_ you would have
~{NBSPACE 1} as shown here: http://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=odsug&docsetTarget=p11xia2ltavr8ln17srq8vn4rnqc.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en#n1nna2hvmgacyfn1vyflvzv2mo6u

cynthia