topic Proc format + contents in SAS Procedures https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Proc-format-contents/m-p/96577#M27253 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there a way to put the output of proc format cntlout= AND proc contents into 1 dataset?</P><P>That is, I want the variables, formats, labels, and format values the variable takes all in one dataset.</P><P>Thanks, in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:01:00 GMT Xinxin 2013-06-05T20:01:00Z Proc format + contents https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Proc-format-contents/m-p/96577#M27253 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there a way to put the output of proc format cntlout= AND proc contents into 1 dataset?</P><P>That is, I want the variables, formats, labels, and format values the variable takes all in one dataset.</P><P>Thanks, in advance.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:01:00 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Proc-format-contents/m-p/96577#M27253 Xinxin 2013-06-05T20:01:00Z Re: Proc format + contents https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Proc-format-contents/m-p/96578#M27254 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is a variation on the basic one-to-many merge, thinkin of variable &amp; formatname as a single unit. The results of PROC CONTENTS would have the name of the format and match to the format name in your CNTLOUT data set.</P><P>However if you have multiple variables using the same format you may have more out put than you really want.</P><P></P><P>Also be aware that if you have the same format name in multiple libraries and do not restrict the input library when generating the CNTLOUT dataset results may be problematic.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:34:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Proc-format-contents/m-p/96578#M27254 ballardw 2013-06-05T22:34:49Z