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Can anyone tell me if there is an equivalent of the split character option from proc report in proc tabulate to break header labels at predefined characters in proc tabulate?

For example, in proc report you could write something like proc report data=mydata split="*"; and then when you specified a column header as "This is*my column*header" the column would appears as follows:

This is
my column

header

Thanks for your help.

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Ksharp
Super User

Can't use ods escapechar ?

options nodate;

  data fundrais;

   length name $ 8 classrm $ 1;

   input @1 team $ @8 classrm $ @10 name $

         @19 pencils @23 tablets;

   sales=pencils + tablets;

   datalines;

BLUE   A ANN       4   8

RED    A MARY      5  10

GREEN  A JOHN      6   4

RED    A BOB       2   3

BLUE   B FRED      6   8

GREEN  B LOUISE   12   2

BLUE   B ANNETTE   .   9

RED    B HENRY     8  10

GREEN  A ANDREW    3   5

RED    A SAMUEL   12  10

BLUE   A LINDA     7  12

GREEN  A SARA      4   .

BLUE   B MARTIN    9  13

RED    B MATTHEW   7   6

GREEN  B BETH     15  10

RED    B LAURA     4   3

;

run;

 

  proc format;

   picture pctfmt low-high='009.99 %';

run;

ods escapechar='~';

ods html file='c:\temp\rename_across_headers_with_report.html';

  proc tabulate data=fundrais  format=9.;

  title '1) TABULATE';

     class team classrm;

     var sales;

     table (team all),

       classrm='Classroom ~n  tabulate'*sales=' '*(sum colpctsum*f=pctfmt.)

       all*sales*sum=' ';

run;

ods html close;

Xia Keshan

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Ksharp
Super User

Can't use ods escapechar ?

options nodate;

  data fundrais;

   length name $ 8 classrm $ 1;

   input @1 team $ @8 classrm $ @10 name $

         @19 pencils @23 tablets;

   sales=pencils + tablets;

   datalines;

BLUE   A ANN       4   8

RED    A MARY      5  10

GREEN  A JOHN      6   4

RED    A BOB       2   3

BLUE   B FRED      6   8

GREEN  B LOUISE   12   2

BLUE   B ANNETTE   .   9

RED    B HENRY     8  10

GREEN  A ANDREW    3   5

RED    A SAMUEL   12  10

BLUE   A LINDA     7  12

GREEN  A SARA      4   .

BLUE   B MARTIN    9  13

RED    B MATTHEW   7   6

GREEN  B BETH     15  10

RED    B LAURA     4   3

;

run;

 

  proc format;

   picture pctfmt low-high='009.99 %';

run;

ods escapechar='~';

ods html file='c:\temp\rename_across_headers_with_report.html';

  proc tabulate data=fundrais  format=9.;

  title '1) TABULATE';

     class team classrm;

     var sales;

     table (team all),

       classrm='Classroom ~n  tabulate'*sales=' '*(sum colpctsum*f=pctfmt.)

       all*sales*sum=' ';

run;

ods html close;

Xia Keshan

statistician13
Quartz | Level 8

Yes, I forgot about the ods escapechar option.  Thanks so much!

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