Applying italic style (italicizing) to a variable value so that it appears italic in the report

[DrAbhijeetSafai]

The answer by @Ksharp  for the question related to "Applying superscript to a variable instead of text" was very much helpful and thanks to him once again for that. 

I was thinking if it is possible to italicize the text by same way (that is by changing sub or super keyword by some other keyword like italic). If anyone knows about it, please let me know. 

Kindly note that it is not the text in title which needs to be italicized but the value in a variable which needs to be italicized. 

Thanks in advance! 🙂

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

[Ksharp · Accepted solution]

Yes. You can.

data have;
set sashelp.class;
if age >14 then super=cats('(*ESC*){style [font_style=italic]',name,'}');
 else super=name;
run;


ods excel file='c:\temp\temp.xlsx';
proc report data=have nowd;
column name age super;
define name/display;
run;
ods excel close;

[DrAbhijeetSafai]

Wonderful!

Many many thanks @Ksharp !

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

[A_Kh]

Alternatively, we can use 'style' attributes in proc report directly. 
eg.

ods excel file='want.xls';
proc report data=sashelp.class;
	column age name sex;
	define name/'Name' display;
	define age/'Age' display;
	define sex/'Sex' display;
	compute name;
		if age > 14 then call define(_col_, "Style", "Style=[fontstyle=italic font_weight=bold]"); 
	endcomp;
run; 
ods excel close;

result.

[DrAbhijeetSafai]

@A_Kh, Thank you.

I remember now that it's traffic lighting! 👍

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai