topic allign parentheses, decimal points in proc report in SAS Programming

allign parentheses, decimal points in proc report

Jedrzej — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:48:49 GMT

hi,

i want allign my data to get proper proc report output

data have

so every row in this case shoud be alligned to 217/336 (64.6%)

thank you for your help

Re: allign parentheses, decimal points in proc report

ballardw — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:58:06 GMT

Have you created some sort of character variable to hold a composite value like that?

If so, the only possibility of getting this to work at all would involve displaying the value with a fixed width font like Courier or SAS Monospace and then inserting blanks into the data value.

If not, then show your proc report code.

Re: allign parentheses, decimal points in proc report

Jedrzej — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:04:52 GMT

yes, it's a concatenated char variable, so maybe I should fixed it in a dataset before ? i'm not good with proc report

Re: allign parentheses, decimal points in proc report

PaigeMiller — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:12:55 GMT

Agreeing with @ballardw . You seem to have missed his point, character strings cannot be aligned on decimal points or parenthesis unless you use a fixed width font like Courier. Where the character string is created (data set or PROC REPORT or anywhere else) is irrelevant to this problem.