| Publisher | SAS Institute | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 212.9KB PDF | Date added | 28 Feb 2006 |
| Topics | Knowledge and Data Management | ||
| Downloads | 145 | ||
Although part of the SAS Format facility for well over two decades, PICTURE Formats are often not well understood, and consequently tend to be underutilized by even experienced SAS users. Yet, they provide a wealth of tools to effectively portray the values of numeric variables and often avoid the need for either tedious data step coding or to create new variables in the data sets. This paper describes how PICTURE Formats "Work," how to write them in PROC FORMAT statements and how to apply them in both Data and Procedure Steps.
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