topic Re: ods html text=""; how to put a tab or several blanks? in SAS Programming

ods html text=""; how to put a tab or several blanks?

barbier — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:17:21 GMT

When I use a webout file as output for a stored process, I use ods html text="bla bla bla" to write some information in my output file.

I found out that I can use ^n to go to the next line:

ods html text="bla bla ^n bla"

results in

bla bla

bla

is there something alike for a tab or for several spaces?

I would like to have this result:

bla bla bla

many thanks!

OS2Rules — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:44:14 GMT

Barbier:

I had the same problem a while ago - it seems that there is no way to do this.

I even tried to make a table and put each block of text into different columns, but that didn't work either.

Tech Support told me that "you can't get there from here".

We wound up separating text with obscure characters.

Sorry I can;'t be of more help.

ballardw — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:45:04 GMT

Look up the ODS ESCAPECHAR statement. But is dependent on version of SAS.

Their are a number of functions that allow manipulation of text that you might need. In your case it is likely to be NBSPACE function.

ODS ESCAPECHAR='^'; /* declare the character to use as escape once */

use

ods html text "bla bla ^{NBSPACE 3} bla"; /* to insert 3 spaces */