topic Re: How To delete a custom format that has a $ in its name in SAS Programming

How To delete a custom format that has a $ in its name

OGA13 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:30:51 GMT

I tried already with:

proc catalog catalog=work.formats;
delete "$RFICDTC";
quit;



or 



proc format library=work.formats;
delete $RFICDTC;
quit;

Re: How To delete a custom format that has a $ in its name

ballardw — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:13:58 GMT

Neither.

The approach with catalog entries is NAME.TYPE. The type of object is important because you could have a program, listing or other objects with the same name. With Formats you have FORMAT and FORMATC for character formats.

You can use

proc catalog catalog=work.formats;
contents ;
run;
quit;

To get the names and type of objects in the catalog. Your example would want:

proc format library=work.formats;
delete RFICDTC.FORMATC;
quit;

Re: How To delete a custom format that has a $ in its name

OGA13 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:16:16 GMT

I used this option and it worked.

proc catalog catalog=work.formats;
delete armnrs / et=formatc;
run;

But also yours seems to use the same apporach. thanks anyway!