How to store a text in a variable in many lines

[Zatere]

Hello,

I am wondering if you could help me please.

I want to store a short text into a variable in different lines.

Please see below:

data want;
 text_in_many_lines = 
  "Hello, 
  This is a text in many lines.
  Thanks.";
run;

If I do so, I am able to store it but not in many lines as shown above.

Is there any way to do it?

Thanks

[PaigeMiller · Accepted solution]

Do you want this to appear in separate lines in a report? If so, explain further.

There really is no concept of "many lines" in a SAS data set, you could insert a carriage break character into the string, but that's really useless unless you want to put this into a report.

[Zatere]

Hi @PaigeMiller,

Yes actually this is what I was looking for.

I did the below:

data want;
text_in_many_lines =
cats(
'Hello,',
'0A'x,'0A'x,
'This is a text in many lines.',
'0A'x,'0A'x,
'Thanks.'
)
;
run;

[PaigeMiller]

Just out of curiosity, why do you want this in a SAS data set variable?

[Zatere]

I use it as body of an email.