topic PRN Format in SAS Enterprise Guide

PRN Format

RameshReddy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:36:51 GMT

Hi,

I am generating .prn fromat form sas using this code

DATA NULL;

FILE "path /sample.prn"

SET datasetname;

put JOB_CODE $2. YEAR_MONTH $6. ' ' BRANCH_CODE $7. ITEM_CODE 3. NO_OF_ACCOUNT_OTHERS zeros. ;

RUN;

These are diffent formats applied

while opening .prn in word pad i am able to get result

but when iam opening it in notepad i am unable to get result in each line

as second line of result is comming in first line of .txt

kindly look into issue and help

PRN Format

Tom — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:18:32 GMT

I usually see that behavior when opening text files generated on Unix. Unix uses just a LineFeed ('0A'x) as the end of line indicator, while DOS (Windows) uses a CarriageReturn ('0D'x) and LineFeed at the end of each line. WordPad is smart enough to intrepret the lines that end only in a LF but Notepad is not.

You can force SAS to write the CR into the end of the lines by adding the TERMSTR=CRLF option to your FILE statement.