Inserting Lines of Text after specific rows in PROC REPORT

[RandoDando]

I am trying to insert lines of text after 3 specific rows in my report in PROC REPORT.  I have a field called ROW which is called in the column statement and not printed in the report.  I want a line of text after row 5, row 12, and row 33.   I tried this below and get a row after each row between 5 and 12, 12 and 33, etc...  

compute after row;
 	if row =5 then do;
   text='Group A'; len=50;
  end;

	if row =12 then do;
   text='Group B'; len=50;
  end;

  	if row =33  then do;
   text='Group C'; len=50;
  end;
  line text $50.  ;
   endcomp; 

[FreelanceReinh · Accepted solution]

Hi @RandoDando,

According to Sample 37763: Conditionally print a LINE statement in PROC REPORT you should use the $VARYINGw. format and define len=0 for the remaining rows:

compute after row;
  len=50;
       if row= 5 then text='Group A';
  else if row=12 then text='Group B';
  else if row=33 then text='Group C';
  else len=0;
  line text $varying. len;
endcomp;

[RandoDando]

I actually tried using the $varying statement but it produced really cryptic, "unknown" errors in SAS, so I changed it back to 50. . I'll try it exactly the way you entered it and see...

EDIT: Tried it as entered above and it worked.  Thanks