topic Re: How to format variable in data step using format name from data set? in SAS Programming

How to format variable in data step using format name from data set?

jb3 — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 19:35:33 GMT

Hi all,

I would like to format numeric values (variable "Value" in the SAS code below) in a data step and save the formatted string in a new variable "FormattedValue". The name of the format to use is saved in the data step, too, and can be different for each row of the data set (Variable "FormatString").

How can I achieve this? Thanks for your help!

Jonas

data test;
	input Value FormatString $;
	length FormattedValue $ 64;
	datalines;
		120.5 dollar8.2
		120.1 8.2
		503.6 8.0	
		;
run;

Re: How to format variable in data step using format name from data set?

Tom — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 20:27:12 GMT

Use the PUTN() function.

FormattedValue = putn(Value, FormatString) ;

Re: How to format variable in data step using format name from data set?

jb3 — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 06:34:56 GMT

That was fast, thanks!!