Date:         Mon, 27 Dec 1999 14:39:03 +0100
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From:         Gehard Hellriegel <detecsm_hellriegelg@WESTLB.DE>
Subject:      Antwort: format - alignment
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"R. Favre" <romuald_favre@YAHOO.COM> on 26.12.99 16:50:48

Bitte antworten an "R. Favre" <romuald_favre@YAHOO.COM>

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Thema:    format - alignment





In a dataset, I would like to align on the right the records of an
alphanumeric variable. If I make " variable = right(variable); " the text
goes a little bit to the right, but is not completely on the right (with
fsView, it seems to be really on the right, but with ViewTable it's in fact
not the case.

Do you have a solution for this small problem ?

Thank you in advance

R.favre

rfavre@atraxis.com




That depends on what you use to display your data! I think, that the ViewTable
      uses a special (kind of proportional) font to display the data and that
      makes the blanks smaller than other bytes. However, if you are using PROC
      REPORT, ... the data is filled up with blanks at the left side. Some other
      PROCs or Frame Classes may shift it back to the left by ignoring all
      blanks. There you may try to use the format $char. or look for options in
      the PROC or CLASS to get it to the right side.


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       Gerhard Hellriegel
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