https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-align-decimal-places-and-add-blanks/m-p/677567#M204397 <P>Are you going to display this with a monospace font like Courier or the SAS Monospace?</P> <P>If not you are not going to be happy with the appearance because "spaces" are going to be interpreted differently depending on fonts. If you look closely at your "need" you will see that decimals between the first and second line do not align and the brackets don't either.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If the goal is to align things then have 3 separate variables/values that can have style elements attached for possible alignment.</P> Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:37:25 GMT ballardw 2020-08-18T17:37:25Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-align-decimal-places-and-add-blanks/m-p/677556#M204387 <P>Hi ,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I have a dataset&nbsp; as following&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;category&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;s1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; s2&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;s3&nbsp; &nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; a1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2(100.0)[4]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3(100.0)[6]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 15(100.0)[105]</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; a2&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1(33.1)[1]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1(50.0)[1]</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; a3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1(5.9)[1]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;0</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I need as following</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp; category&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;s1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; s2&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; s3&nbsp; &nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; a1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2&nbsp; (100.0)&nbsp; [4]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3&nbsp; (100.0)&nbsp; [6]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 15&nbsp; (100.0)&nbsp; [105]</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; a2&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1&nbsp; (&nbsp; 33.1)&nbsp; [1]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1&nbsp; &nbsp;(&nbsp; 50.0)&nbsp; &nbsp;[&nbsp; &nbsp;1]</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; a3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1&nbsp; (&nbsp; &nbsp; 5.9)&nbsp; [1]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Appreciate your input</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:14:17 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-align-decimal-places-and-add-blanks/m-p/677556#M204387 sri1 2020-08-18T17:14:17Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-align-decimal-places-and-add-blanks/m-p/677567#M204397 <P>Are you going to display this with a monospace font like Courier or the SAS Monospace?</P> <P>If not you are not going to be happy with the appearance because "spaces" are going to be interpreted differently depending on fonts. If you look closely at your "need" you will see that decimals between the first and second line do not align and the brackets don't either.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If the goal is to align things then have 3 separate variables/values that can have style elements attached for possible alignment.</P> Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:37:25 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-align-decimal-places-and-add-blanks/m-p/677567#M204397 ballardw 2020-08-18T17:37:25Z