topic Re: Printing blanks instead of . or " " to Excel in SAS Programming

Printing blanks instead of . or " " to Excel

Spacetime — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:48:53 GMT

I am doing some extensive printing of tables out to Excel using the ExcelXP tagset. One thing that happens, when a numeric is blank, it will print a . out to my table. Also, when a character is blank, it will print a " " (so an actual space) out to my table. My users asked me to make these simply be blank (no . and no " "). Is there an option to set that will get these to print out that way?

Thanks.

Re: Printing blanks instead of . or " " to Excel

Haikuo — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:29:10 GMT

Not tested for Excel output, but works for SAS display:

Try this:

Options missing='';

Haikuo

Re: Printing blanks instead of . or " " to Excel

Spacetime — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:39:09 GMT

Thank you, this did work for my numeric! They no longer print a . to Excel. For some reason my character are still printing the blank space to Excel though. Now I am wondering whether this missing = option only applies to the numeric, and whether there is a similar option for the character.

It seems strange it would act this way for the missing character.