| Date: | Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:47:27 -0400 |
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| Reply-To: | Steven Raimi <sraimi@MARKETINGASSOCIATES.COM> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Steven Raimi <sraimi@MARKETINGASSOCIATES.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: any difference between format templates '9.00' and '9.99' |
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From the PROC FORMAT documentation:
Digit selectors are numeric characters (0 through 9) that define positions
for numeric values. *****A picture format with nonzero digit selectors
prints any leading zeros in variable values; picture digit selectors of 0
do not print leading zeros in variable values.***** If the picture format
contains digit selectors, then a digit selector must be the first
character in the picture.
(me) I don't know if that applies to trailing zeros. If your value is
always greater than 1, you may have no effective difference. If the value
is between 0 and 1, either version of your picture format will have the
leading zero.
Steven Raimi
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