topic Re: i want to see what are the formats available in a catalog in SAS Programming

i want to see what are the formats available in a catalog

Pandu — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:23:02 GMT

Hi,

i want to see what are the formats available in a catalog.

looking forward for your help,

FreelanceReinh — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:38:11 GMT

I mostly use the FMTLIB option of PROC FORMAT for this purpose.

The syntax is:

proc format lib=your_libref fmtlib;
run;

Or, if the name of the catalog is not FORMATS:

proc format lib=your_libref.your_catalog fmtlib;
run;

If you don't want to see the format definitions, but just the format names, types, etc., the CATALOG procedure is a better option:

proc catalog c=your_libref.your_catalog;
contents;
quit;

andreas_lds — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 11:49:17 GMT

Enterprise Guide 8.x has a viewer for catalogs names "Catalog and format explorer".

Reeza — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 14:30:12 GMT

CNTLOUT on PROC FORMAT to pipe that information to a data set.