topic Re: Reserved words for Proc Report in ODS and Base Reporting

Reserved words for Proc Report

DmytroYermak — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:22:48 GMT

During the latest two weeks I saw/used several 'reserved words' for Proc Report like:

~R/RTF'\brdrb\brdrs\brdrw1'

pretext="\qj\tqdec\tx800 "

#byval(XXX)

Could anybody provide a link on the full list of such reserved words.

Thank you!

Re: Reserved words for Proc Report

Tom — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:26:56 GMT

The first two look like RTF commands and so should only have an impact on ODS RTF output. Although I assume that the PREFIX= option is probably a PROC REPORT feature.

The last one is standard feature of using BY statement values in TITLES and should have nothing to do with PROC REPORT.

Re: Reserved words for Proc Report

DmytroYermak — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:53:40 GMT

Thank you! What are the RTF commands? Where to read about them more?

Re: Reserved words for Proc Report

Tom — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:14:54 GMT

Rich Text Format was published by MicroSoft.

You might start with Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format

But there are numerous SAS related articles also.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%40lexjansen.com+rtf+syntax

Re: Reserved words for Proc Report

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 02:22:31 GMT

I like to use this O'Reilly book to investigate RTF control strings/commands: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004750.do

Cynthia

Re: Reserved words for Proc Report

DmytroYermak — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:47:59 GMT

Hi Cynthia,

I found the book. There is the qj command there but there is no tqdec. Could you please explain how it works.

\qj\tqdec\tx800

Re: Reserved words for Proc Report

Cynthia_sas — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 23:01:04 GMT

Hi,
I don't know every RTF control string or control command. If it's not in the O'Reilly book, I search on the RTF spec web site: http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm and if I do a Ctrl+F on that page and search for \tqdec, it looks like it is setting a decimal tab.

cynthia