topic Re: problem with proc formats in SAS Programming

problem with proc formats

atulsingh — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:38:41 GMT

I am having a dataset with values yes/no. I want to use proc format to replace yes with 1 and no with 0.

The dataset is attached for reference.

LinusH — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:43:23 GMT

So what is your problem?

What have you tried?

atulsingh — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:49:10 GMT

proc format;
value fmt 'No'= 0 'Yes'= 1;
run;

I am getting the error :

proc format;

63 value fmt 'No'= 0 'Yes'= 1;

ERROR: The quoted string 'No' is not acceptable to a numeric format or informat.

ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: a quoted string, a format name.

ERROR 76-322: Syntax error, statement will be ignored.

atulsingh — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:08:01 GMT

Please reply. I am stuck

Astounding — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:43:04 GMT

To create a format for a character variable, the format name must begin with $:

value $fmt 'No'='0' 'Yes'='1';

Alternatively, you could create an informat using INVALUE instead of VALUE.