Creating SAS Data Sets from Custom Formats
Overview
You
know how to create a format from a SAS data set, but what if you want
to create a SAS data set from a format? To do this, you use the CNTLOUT=
option.
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General form, CNTLOUT=
option in PROC FORMAT:
PROC FORMAT LIBRARY=libref.catalog CNTLOUT=SAS-data-set;
SELECT format-name
format-name...;
EXCLUDE format-name
format-name...;
RUN;
libref.catalog
is the name of the
catalog in which the format is located.
SAS-data-set
is the name of the
SAS data set that you want to create.
format-name
is the name of the
format that you want to select or exclude.
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The output control data set will contain variables that completely describe all ...
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