Sir,   Could you please make me understand what happens if we don't use " if _n_ = 0 then set have;" statement? Thanks.   ... View more

Thanks Cynthia. Yes now am able to see the differences. I haven't clearly understood the difference between Listing and ODS outputs. That explains everything.  ... View more

Thanks for helping me out and yes I agree, I didn't notice the post's date 🙂 Will pay more attention next time before posting.   Coming to the problem, I tried your original program and did try the flow option and width option separately. Still am not able to see the changes. I am using SAS University edition for learning purpose. Will that be a problem?   This is the listing i keep getting,       ... View more

Hi Cynthia,   I tried your listing program. Am still not able to see the changes done by FLOW and WIDTH options.. Am i missing out anything here? BTW am not trying ODS outputs. Your suggestions would help me a lot. Thanks.   Below is the program i tried:   options linesize=180; data learn.lengthy_text; charvar = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXYZ'; charvar2 = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'; charvar3 = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXYZ'; charvar4 = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'; output; run; proc report data = learn.lengthy_text; define charvar / flow width = 10  'Label....x'; run; ... View more