Italicize a partial string in Proc Report Compute Statement

[jmck]

I am formatting a report in Proc Report on SAS Viya. I have a column of data that has several Pathogen names. I need to italicize part of the name. For instance, for Salmonella spp., I only need the Salmonella portion italicized. I am using the following compute command:

compute Pathogen ;
if Pathogen="Salmonella spp." then do ;
Pathogen='^{style[fontstyle=italic]Salmonella}^';
end ;
endcomp ;

It works except it is truncating my variable to show only Salmo in italics. Anybody know why it isn't printing the whole word? Once I fix that, how do I add the "spp." back on in non-italics? THANKS!!! (should also mention I'm using ods escapechar="^")

[PaigeMiller]

Use the ODS ESCAPECHAR command and the appropriate modifications of you text string. Examples: https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/pgmsascdc/9.4_3.5/odsug/p11xia2ltavr8ln17srq8vn4rnqc.htm#p0xwm6...