topic Right align my monetary data in SAS Programming

Right align my monetary data

Mike018 — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:18:36 GMT

I have some monetary data that could have diffrent length. (Ex. with a format of 10.2, I could have 1234.56 or 1234567.89)

I know that I can right align that by converting to char and add some zeros depending on the value - that's not what I want.

Actually, If I don't want all these extra zeros to appear, then the values are not right aligned.

So, how can I print the real number (with no extra zero) AND right align that.

Thanks

Right align my monetary data

Reeza — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:46:50 GMT

If you're printing the data using proc report can you use align=right?

Right align my monetary data

Mike018 — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:56:51 GMT

Actually, I use a data _null_ . Is there a way to do it with a Data?

Right align my monetary data

Reeza — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:11:20 GMT

What are you outputting it to?

Right align my monetary data

rtritz — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:17:47 GMT

One possibility is to convert the numeric data to character and use the right function which will right align character variables in the data cell by adding blanks not zeros.

Rich

Right align my monetary data

Mike018 — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:58:09 GMT

@Reeza : In my outfile, I put a report that contains some totals for the different types of record I read from my infile.

@rtritz : Thanks, I'll try it.

Right align my monetary data

Ksharp — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:35:36 GMT

Numeric data is right align default.

If you use a format in data _null_ to print data , the number will be right align.

data x;
input x 10.2;
cards;
1234.56
1234567.89
;run;
data _null_;
set x;
put x best10.2;
run;

Ksharp

Right align my monetary data

Peter_C — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:21:36 GMT

Mike018

use a format in the PUT statement in your data _null_ step.

peterC