| Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:28:26 -0500 |
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| Reply-To: | "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM> |
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| Subject: | TIP: List format data from SAS Explorer |
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Version 9 instructions
Click in SAS Explorer.
Menu: Tools/Options/Explorer
Click Entries tab
Select FORMATC type
Click Edit
Click Add
Action: &List
Command: (all on one line)
gsubmit 'data;run;proc format
cntlout=&syslast(where=(find("%8b.%32b.%32b.",cats(".",fmtname,"."),"i")));r
un;' ; vt &syslast
What does command do ?
* create a new automatically numbered dataset DATA{n};
data;run;
* save format data to DATA{n}, keeping only rows for format name clicked on;
proc format
cntlout=&syslast(where=(find("%8b.%32b.%32b.",cats(".",fmtname,"."),"i")));
run;
* viewtable the data;
vt &syslast
You should also define the action for catalog entry type FORMAT.
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Richard A. DeVenezia
http://www.devenezia.com/
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