Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:20:56 -0500
Reply-To: "Schechter, Robert S" <robert.schechter@ASTRAZENECA.COM>
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From: "Schechter, Robert S" <robert.schechter@ASTRAZENECA.COM>
Subject: Re: Proc Report Question
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I don't think PROC FREQ or any other proc will help here. Once you've read
it into a numeric variable it's stored as an internal integer and you've
lost the way they had appeared in the input data set. Can you store the
variable as a character (also) for purposes of "printing it as it was?"
Another caveat, when a variable can be measured at various precisions, how
precise can your results be?
HTH,
Bob Schechter
-----Original Message-----
From: Ravi, Prasad [mailto:Prasad.Ravi@PFIZER.COM]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:45 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Proc Report Question
If you want to include all the decimal positions, find out the max # of
decimal
positions(by PROC FREQ or PROC PRINT) of your data then specify that in the
FORMAT= statement.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon Well [mailto:peach71_us@YAHOO.C]OM
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:12 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Proc Report Question
Hi
I am running a proc report on lab values, with
different levels of precision such as 10.2, 10, 10.02
etc. I defined the variable as below.
Define lval/format=5.2 width=10 ' Lab Value';
Now the problem is it formats all the values to 2
decimals, which I know is what I specified in my
format statement. If I don't specify any formats then
it rounds it off to three decimal places.
My question is what format should I give, such that
all the values would be reported just as how they
appear in the input data set.
Would appreciate if someone could help me.
Thanks.
Sharon
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