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Ronein
Meteorite | Level 14

Hello

I have numeric values with format percent8.2

The negative values are displayed with ()

Example:

(11.60%)
1.41%

 

My question:

I want that negative values diaplay with minus and not ()

what is the way to do it?

 

 

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Accepted Solutions
Amir
PROC Star

Hi,

 

You could try something like the below. It uses the PERCENTNw.d format (notice the extra "N" in PERCENTNw.d).

 

data have;
  format pc2 percentn8.2;
  input pc1;
  
  pc2 = pc1;
  
  datalines;
-0.116
0.0141
;

 

 

Thanks & kind regards,

Amir.

 

Edit: Typo.

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Amir
PROC Star

Hi,

 

You could try something like the below. It uses the PERCENTNw.d format (notice the extra "N" in PERCENTNw.d).

 

data have;
  format pc2 percentn8.2;
  input pc1;
  
  pc2 = pc1;
  
  datalines;
-0.116
0.0141
;

 

 

Thanks & kind regards,

Amir.

 

Edit: Typo.

Ronein
Meteorite | Level 14

Thanks.

so the difference is that I used percent8.2  and you used percentn8.2 ?

Amir
PROC Star

Hi Ronein,

 

Yes, that appears to be the case. You can see more from the documentation by using the link I provided in my previous post; thanks for marking it as a solution.

 

 

Thanks & kind regards,

Amir.

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