topic Re: Text Editor in SAS Programming

Text Editor

Mallonjf0 — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:47:31 GMT

Wondering if SAS Studio has an option in its text editor to display line and column numbers? Handy for me when inputting by column position.

Thanks John

Re: Text Editor

34reqrwe — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:18:24 GMT

In version 4.3 You can display line numbers in the code editor by choosing "More application Options" near the top right of the screen, then choose preferences-> editor -> Show line numbers

Re: Text Editor

Reeza — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:11:33 GMT

SAS Studio documentation is pretty decent.

It shows that you can set the line numbers, but I don't see anything about column numbers. The columns do show on the bottom left corner when typing though.

@Mallonjf0 wrote:

Wondering if SAS Studio has an option in its text editor to display line and column numbers? Handy for me when inputting by column position.

Thanks John

Re: Text Editor

Mallonjf0 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:14:14 GMT

Thank you, John

Re: Text Editor

Mallonjf0 — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:36:11 GMT

Thank you,

My input files often have odd formats with variables having spaces anywhere in them. I have been using the SAS log file that provides a ruler and line numbers. This is shown when you have invalid data for a variable. Works, but I was wondering if SAS provided the ruler option.

Seems not.

But thanks for you time.

John

Re: Text Editor

ChrisBrooks — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 02:12:55 GMT

It doesn't as far as I know but of course SAS programs are simply text files so you could write them in any text editor (I know many people use Notepad++ and I've used UltraEdit) and then open them in SAS Studio and run them there.

Re: Text Editor

Mallonjf0 — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 01:39:12 GMT

Thanks, are notepad++ and ultra available. How much $$ if you know.
John

Re: Text Editor

ChrisBrooks — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 02:12:31 GMT

Notepad++ is free -> https://notepad-plus-plus.org UltraEdit is $99.95 for a personal licence with discounts for teachers and students -> https://www.ultraedit.com

Re: Text Editor

ballardw — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:57:48 GMT

@Mallonjf0 wrote:

Thank you,

My input files often have odd formats with variables having spaces anywhere in them. I have been using the SAS log file that provides a ruler and line numbers. This is shown when you have invalid data for a variable. Works, but I was wondering if SAS provided the ruler option.

Seems not.

But thanks for you time.

John

There is another option that may be available to examine line and column positions in SAS: FSLIST. I don't know if this works in SAS studio but in SAS command bare entering FSLIST "path\and\filename", or if you assign a FILENAME to the file, FSLIST Fileref will open the file in a Viewer (no editing). You can add a column ruler similar to the Log using the COL command once the viewer is open and the NUM command shows row numbers. And this will have the text on a single row.

Re: Text Editor

Mallonjf0 — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:45:10 GMT

Thanks, don't see a SAS Command bar in Studio. Will look around some more.

Thanks for your time and suggestion, John

Re: Text Editor

Mallonjf0 — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 16:47:40 GMT

Thanks Chris, downloaded Notepad++ successfully but still can' get a ruler to show.

John