Date:         Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:05:03 -0400
Reply-To:     Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: conversion of sas data sets to flat files
Comments: To: Thomasset Pierre <pierre.thomasset@EURONET.BE>
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Thomasset,

   put (_all_) (:) ;

This is a list method of specifying the PUT statement.  The first pair of
parentheses indicate the list of variables.  In this case _ALL_ is a key
word meaning all the user variables in the PDV at the point in compilation
where the statement appears.  The second pair of parentheses gives the
corresponding formats.  If the list of formats is short then it is recycled.
The colon is the format colon modifier.  In this case there is no format to
be modified so the system uses the default format for the corresponding
variable.

IanWhitlock@westat.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomasset Pierre [mailto:pierre.thomasset@EURONET.BE]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:51 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: conversion of sas data sets to flat files


Thank you for this example.
Please, could you explain the format-list (:) used with put (_all_) ?