topic Re: ODS RTF Unbreakable space in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS RTF Unbreakable space

deleted_user — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:27:01 GMT

I am concatenating a string in a compute block of a PROC REPORT.

description= Part1 || " " || Part2;

Part1="United States"
Part2= "(Continued)"

The resulting rtf string is

United\~States\~(Continued)

I need spaces not unbreakable spaces (\~).

How do I do that?

JK

Re: ODS RTF Unbreakable space

Tim_SAS — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:49:26 GMT

Sorry, John. There's no way to do this with REPORT. Then nonbreaking spaces are deliberate. REPORT really wants each LINE statement to create exactly one line of output. Possibly you could post-process the RTF output but that's out of my league.

Re: ODS RTF Unbreakable space

Olivier — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:42:33 GMT

Although you cannot get rid of the unbreakable spaces inserted by proc Report, you can add your own breakable spaces where you think you should have some... Use ODS ESCAPECHAR="^" ; (for instance) and then the breakable space is ^w. Just add it in your code, something like :

description= Part1 || "^w" || Part2;

If you resize the table in the RTF document, that would cut the text between part1 and part2.

Regards,
Olivier