draw a line and blank before date

[Zhenbin]

Hi guys ,

I saw this code somewhere when we do ODS rtf, it is really does the job, but I don't know why and how.

%let topbrdr = ^R'\brdrt\brdrs\brdrw10';      /*draw a line on top of footnote*/

footnote4 j=left "&topbrdr Program Name xxx ooo";

the other one is  "^R'\li380'"  in the following code;

data final;
set all;

if ord ne 1 then print="^R'\li380'"||trim(left(stat));       /*add blank before stat*/
else print = trim(left(stat));

run;

if i give a bigger number than 380, then add more blank before stat;

my question is where I can find information about this  ?

any idea ?

Thank you very much.

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:
That is a mix of syntax. The ^R is SAS syntax -- using ODS ESCAPECHAR to pass "raw" control strings to a destination. The "raw" capability can pass HTML tags or RTF control strings to their respective destinations. what comes after the ^R is an RTF control string. You'd look that up in an RTF reference like this one: http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm or an O'Reilly book on RTF.
Hope this helps,
Cynthia
(PS -- this was pre 9.2 syntax for ^R -- the syntax has changed for ODS ESCAPECHAR since I wrote this paper: https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings/proceedings/forum2007/099-2007.pdf)

[Zhenbin]

Thank you for your reply,Cynthia.