topic Re: Multi-line prompt input text in SAS Enterprise Guide

Multi-line prompt input text

LenFocus — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 03:24:25 GMT

Hi,

I have created a multi-line prompt input inside SAS EG.

After receving the input, I tried to output to the report via ODS statement.

ods text = "^{style [color=#808080 fontfamily='<serif> , <MTserif> , Times' fontsize=9PT LEFTMARGIN=1.5cm]■}^{style [color=black fontfamily='<serif> , <MTserif> , Times' fontsize=9PT]       &highlights }";

However, the line break seems to be missing inside the report.

Is there any way to add back the link breaks to the report?

Thanks.

Re: Multi-line prompt input text

BrunoMueller — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 07:13:22 GMT

Linebreaks are not preserved by the multi-line prompt.

As a possible workaround I suggest to use a prompt definition like this:

This will give you an individual macro variable for each line. See part of the log below. The name of the prompt used in this example is MULTILINE.

32         %put _user_;
GLOBAL MULTILINE line1
GLOBAL MULTILINE0 2
GLOBAL MULTILINE1 line1
GLOBAL MULTILINE2 line2
GLOBAL MULTILINE_COUNT 2

You can then use the individual macro variables to put together your text that you need. I agree not the most elegant way, but might be a possible workaround.

This is an example code to handle the multiple macro variables


%macro generateText;
  %local i;
  %global newMultiline;
  %let newMultiline =;

  %if &MULTILINE_COUNT = 1 %then %do;
    %global MULTILINE1;
    %let MULTILINE1 = &multiline1;
  %end;

  %do i = 1 %to &MULTILINE_COUNT;
    %let newMultiline = &newmultiline.^{NEWLINE}&&multiline&i;
  %end;
%mend;

%generateText

ods escapechar="^";
ods text="&newMultiline";

proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;

Bruno

Re: Multi-line prompt input text

LenFocus — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 09:56:22 GMT

Thanks Bruno. It works nicely.