Date:         Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:16:41 -0500
Reply-To:     Carol Bristow <Carol.Bristow@DPRA.COM>
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From:         Carol Bristow <Carol.Bristow@DPRA.COM>
Subject:      Re: Simulating a title with the PUT statement XXX
Comments: To: Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
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In the days of fixed fonts, when I needed to put out lines of text that
couldn't be done as titles or bylines, I computed a location variable by
subtracting the length of the text that I wanted to write out from the
linesize and divided by two.  Something like:

c1 = (linesize - length(textstring) / 2;
put @c1 textstring;

I've not had occasion to use this for a while, so I don't know off the
top of my head what will happen if you're using proportional fonts, and
I don't have time to play to find out.

Carol Bristow
DPRA Inc.
1655 N. Ft Myer Dr.  Ste925
Arlington, VA 22209
phone: 703-682-2612
fax: 703-528-3100


-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Gerhard Hellriegel
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:43 AM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Simulating a title with the PUT statement XXX

if you have something to list, why don't you use a title statement?
If you have nothing and want only the title, you must use a char which
is
not visible, but not blank. I think hex FF or ED (somewhere around that)
is something what you could use to force SAS to produce a output.

title "Results for Subpopulation #&I:";

DATA _NULL_;
FILE PRINT;
PUT "."; PUT ; PUT;
RUN;

Gerhard



On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:44:34 -0400, Dan Abner <dan.abner99@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know how to center a character string in the listing and
print
>it in blue using a PUT statment (In other words, to mimick a title)?
>
>I have the following DATA step that I use in what I hope will be a
>production level macro. Just need this to look like a proper title. I
would
>rather not call a null PROC step just to get a title to print...
>
>DATA _NULL_;
>
>FILE PRINT;
>
>PUT; PUT "Results for Subpopulation #&I:"; PUT;
>
>RUN;
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>
>Daniel