Hi all,

I am posting this here because I'm not sure how to search for this topic online. I usually try to do my homework a bit before asking you all for your time.

I have a dataset like this:

measurement result

measure1 100 (1.1 +/- 0.1) (98, 102) measure2 60 (40.5 +/- 5.1) (28, 80)

The variable RESULT has the following label: Baseline N (Mean +/- SD) (Min, Max)

I create the values for RESULT by concatenating some summary statistics from a PROC. I also create the label by concatenating the visit name with a string.

I will use PROC REPORT with ODS RTF to output these results. I would like the results to display like this (simplified version):

measurement Baseline N (Mean +/- SD) (Min, Max) measure1 100 (1.1 +/- 0.1) (98, 102) measure2 60 (40.5 +/- 5.1) (28, 80)

QUESTION: Is there a way to embed some special character in the variable label and also in the value of each variable so that when I send the results to an .rtf doc with ODS that the carriage returns are used? Is this a case where I would use an ODS escape character? Can this even be done?

I know that I can use split characters within PROC REPORT in each individual DEFINE statement, but I am trying to set up labels ahead of time instead.

Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction.

Cheers, Mary R.