how to create format

[thanikondharish]

i wanted to create one format but it gave error see like below 

[ChrisNZ]

It looks like you have a very old version of SAS, where this syntax was not supported.

Run  %put &sysvlong; and report here.

[Tom]

Doesn't the ANYALPHA() function return a numeric result? How is PROC FORMAT supposed to use that function to generate a character string?  Make an INFORMAT instead.

236   proc format ;
237     invalue anyalpha other=[anyalpha()] ;
NOTE: Informat ANYALPHA has been output.
238   run;

[ChrisNZ]

@Tom it works for me.

[ballardw]

When the OP format is valid syntax it returns '0' or '1' for the formatted value.

Of course you can't do calculations with the result very well...