Cody's Collection of Popular SAS Programming Tasks and How to Tackle Them

Chapter 5: Creating Formats from SAS Data Sets

Introduction

Task: Using a SAS data set to create a format (by creating a control data set)

Task: Adding new format values to an existing format

Conclusion

Introduction

The basic approach to creating a user-defined format or informat is to run PROC FORMAT and supply labels for each value or a range of values that you want to format. There are times when this becomes very tedious. If the information you need to create a format is already stored in a SAS data set, you can convert this data set into a control data set that can then be used to create your format. This chapter demonstrates how to create a control data set and how to add or modify values in an existing format.

Task: Using a SAS data ...