Date:         Thu, 25 May 2000 08:33:00 +0200
Reply-To:     F a b r i z i o <Fabrizio1@USA.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         F a b r i z i o <Fabrizio1@USA.NET>
Organization: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Subject:      Re: Reverse engineer a format

Boylan, David wrote in message
<9FEBDBDB9297D31198790008C71638CCACD28E@whqntmgx01.hrblock.com>...
>We have a format on our library originally developed from a data set.  We
>use the format all of the time, but, somehow lost the SAS data set from
>which it was created.  Is there any way to "write" out the format (value or
>value ranges and labels) back to a data set.  Please advise.

PROC FORMAT LIBRARY=xxxxx CNTLOUT=anyname;
     SELECT fmtname;
     RUN;

This code writes the contents of the 'fmtname' format to
a SAS dataset named 'anyname'.

Good luck.

Brgds; Fabrizio