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Pandu
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi,

 

i want to see what are the formats available in a catalog.

 

looking forward for your help,

 

 

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FreelanceReinh
Jade | Level 19

Hi @Pandu,

 

I mostly use the FMTLIB option of PROC FORMAT for this purpose.

 

The syntax is:

proc format lib=your_libref fmtlib;
run;

Or, if the name of the catalog is not FORMATS:

proc format lib=your_libref.your_catalog fmtlib;
run;

 

If you don't want to see the format definitions, but just the format names, types, etc., the CATALOG procedure is a better option:

proc catalog c=your_libref.your_catalog;
contents;
quit;
andreas_lds
Jade | Level 19

Enterprise Guide 8.x has a viewer for catalogs names "Catalog and format explorer".

Reeza
Super User

CNTLOUT on PROC FORMAT to pipe that information to a data set. 

 

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