topic Re: draw a line and blank before date in ODS and Base Reporting

draw a line and blank before date

Zhenbin — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 03:50:11 GMT

Hi guys ,

I saw this code somewhere when we do ODS rtf, it is really does the job, but I don't know why and how.

%let topbrdr = ^R'\brdrt\brdrs\brdrw10'; /*draw a line on top of footnote*/

footnote4 j=left "&topbrdr Program Name xxx ooo";

the other one is "^R'\li380'" in the following code;

data final;
set all;

if ord ne 1 then print="^R'\li380'"||trim(left(stat)); /*add blank before stat*/
else print = trim(left(stat));

run;

if i give a bigger number than 380, then add more blank before stat;

my question is where I can find information about this ?

any idea ?

Thank you very much.

Re: draw a line and blank before date

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:08:48 GMT

Hi:
That is a mix of syntax. The ^R is SAS syntax -- using ODS ESCAPECHAR to pass "raw" control strings to a destination. The "raw" capability can pass HTML tags or RTF control strings to their respective destinations. what comes after the ^R is an RTF control string. You'd look that up in an RTF reference like this one: http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm or an O'Reilly book on RTF.
Hope this helps,
Cynthia
(PS -- this was pre 9.2 syntax for ^R -- the syntax has changed for ODS ESCAPECHAR since I wrote this paper: https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings/proceedings/forum2007/099-2007.pdf)

Re: draw a line and blank before date

Zhenbin — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 01:15:22 GMT

Thank you for your reply,Cynthia.