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.
Hi
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
Hi
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
Thanks Bruno. It works nicely.
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