topic Re: different fixed formats in SAS Programming

different fixed formats

thanikondharish — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 05:19:04 GMT

We are using different formats like best. , percent. like these i need different fixed formats except date formats

can you kindly let me know what are they?

Re: different fixed formats

Reeza — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 07:26:27 GMT

I have no idea what the question is here.

Re: different fixed formats

thanikondharish — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 07:33:41 GMT

fixed formats like
ex: negparen8.

like above examples

Re: different fixed formats

FreelanceReinh — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 16:28:54 GMT

Hi @thanikondharish,

Do you mean width specifications appended to format names?

When you look through the list of SAS-supplied formats you'll notice that all of them include such a w or w.d specification. Omitting them means using the default value(s). These defaults and the ranges of valid values for w (and d if any) can be found in the documentation of each format. For example, in negparen. the width and number of decimals are not really unspecified, but they default to 6 and 0, respectively. Similarly, best. is equivalent to best12. and percent. is equivalent to percent6. and percent6.0.

You can use w (and, if applicable, even w.d) specifications with user-defined formats as well.

Re: different fixed formats

Reeza — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 17:52:59 GMT

What do you mean by ‘fixed format’? That is not a term I’ve heard in reference to SAS formats in 20 years, though there are fixed format files which talk about the file structure