Need Format Code Check

InfoAlisaA — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:41:56 GMT

Hello Everyone,

So I have the following data set that I need to create a format from which is called orion.continent:

Continent_

Obs ID Continent_Name

1 91 North America

2 93 Europe

3 94 Africa

4 95 Asia

5 96 Australia/Pacific

I used the following code in order to create the continent format:

data continent;

keep Start Label FmtName;

retain FmtName 'Continent' ;

set orion.continent (rename=(Continent_ID=Start Continent_Name=Label));

run;

proc format library=orion.myfmts cntlin=continent;

run;

proc format library=orion.myfmts fmtlib;

run;

Then my assignment calls for me to run this code and it should run without errors:

data countries;

set orion.country;

Continent_Name=put(Continent_ID, Continent.);

run;

proc print data=Countries(obs=10);

title 'Continent Names';

run;

This is the error that I am continuously getting:

307 data countries;

308 set orion.country;

309 Continent_Name=put(Continent_ID,Continent.);

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ERROR 48-59: The format CONTINENT was not found or could not be loaded.

310 run;

So I am not sure if I am coding this incorrectly or if the code that my assignment has put is incorrect.

Could someone please let me know where this is going wrong?

Thanks,

Alisa

Re: Need Format Code Check

InfoAlisaA — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:57:09 GMT

Figured it out. Needed to insert:

options fmterr fmtsearch=(orion orion.myfmts);

before my code in order to get this to work.