re: proc tabulate suppress blank column

[twildone]

Hi....I am trying to suppress a column that is blank when I run this code. The blank column appears next to the the column labelled "Programs" in the output. Any suggestion on how to suppress this blank column. Thanks

proc tabulate data=ListFinal1000;
	
	var COUNT_of_StudentUID;
	class 'Academic Year'n / style=[background=lightgreen  ] order=unformatted missing;
	class "Education Status"n /	style=[background=lightgreen ] order=unformatted missing;
	class Programs / style=[background=lightgreen ] order=unformatted missing;
    classlev 'Academic Year'n / style=[background=lightgreen];
    classlev Programs / style=[background=lightgreen cellwidth=10.0cm];
    classlev "Education Status"n / style=[background=lightgreen cellwidth=3.0cm];

    table "Education Status"n=' ' * Programs=' ' * pctsum<Programs>=''*f=8.2, 'Academic Year'n * COUNT_of_StudentUID='' / box=[label='Percentage of Applications for Each Program and Academic Year' style=[backgroundcolor=lightgreen cellwidth=10.0cm]];
;
run;

[Cynthia_sas · Accepted solution]

Hi:
Without data, it's hard to visualize what you're seeing. I see that you have Programs nested inside Education Status with Academic Year and Count of Students in the column dimension, but since Programs is nested inside Education Status it's hard to comment since you are assigning blanks in the TABLE statement for all the variable and statistics headers in the row dimension. You could try ROW=FLOAT, or experiment with MISSING to see which might work to suppress the blank column, but it sort of depends on whether the blanks are to the left or the right or Programs, and whether the blanks are header cells or data cells -- which is hard to see without any data.
Cynthia

[twildone]

Hi Cynthia,.....Thanks for your help. the suggestion of including ROW=FLOAT worked.