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[mediaeval]

I have the following data step:

Data _null_;

Set SHPR;

File "C:\shpr.txt" Lrecl = 900;

Put @1 SPCODE 2.

             Total10-Total20 13.4;

Run;

This produces data in the text file like so:

20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0        0.0000

30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0        0.0000

20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0        0.0000

Clearly, what is happening is that it outputs the variables Total10-Total19 just as zero, and outputs the variable Total20 with the numeric format 13.4.

I want all of those variables Total10-Total20 to be output with the numeric format 13.4. Is there a way for me to do this without me having to specify all

of the variables individually? The above is a snippet of my code - there are several hundred of these "Total" variables.

Thanks

[art297 · Accepted solution]

Just add a couple of parentheses.  e.g.

(Total10-Total20) (13.4);