topic PROC PRINT - width of variable in SAS Programming

PROC PRINT - width of variable

mafiapainter — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 12:46:45 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to see how changing the width of a column in PROC print reflects in the output(window, HTML and PDF). I am using the SAS University Edition.

Should not specifying width=2 should limit the column width as 2 ? Against the column width specified as 2 , the column name is written as "customer region" which is greater than column width specified as 2.

Below is the code:

Output in Results window:

HTML output downloded:

PDF output downloaded:

Re: PROC PRINT - width of variable

Ksharp — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 13:18:46 GMT

No. width=2 is only for LISTING ,not HTML destination.

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define region/group style={cellwidth=1 cm};

Re: PROC PRINT - width of variable

mafiapainter — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:26:12 GMT

Appreciate your response and help on this. But I am getting the same result:

updated code:

Re: PROC PRINT - width of variable

Cynthia_sas — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:48:41 GMT

HI, 1 CM is rather small. If you want to guarantee that 'customer' is on one line and 'region' is on the next line, then use the split character to control the column label:
define region / group 'Customer*Region'
style(column)={cellwidth=2in};

cynthia

Re: PROC PRINT - width of variable

Shmuel — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:26:22 GMT

Pay attention, in all your outputs the customer region is leading zeros suppressed, there fore you got the region as one digit.

If you meant by width=2 to get the region as two digits, you should define its format as z2.