The FORMAT Procedure

Example 7: Retrieving a Permanent Format

Procedure features:

PROC FORMAT statement options:

LIBRARY=

Other features:

FMTSEARCH= system option

Data sets:

SAMPLE.

This example uses the LIBRARY= option and the FMTSEARCH= system option to store and retrieve a format stored in a catalog other than WORK.FORMATS or LIBRARY.FORMATS.

Program

libname proclib 'SAS-data-library';

options nodate pageno=1 linesize=64 pagesize=60;

proc format library=proclib;

   picture nozeros
              low   -     -1  =  '00.00' (prefix='-'          )
               -1  <-<     0  =     '99' (prefix='-.' mult=100)
                0   -<     1  =     '99' (prefix='.'  mult=100)
                1   -   high  =  '00.00';
run;

   options  fmtsearch=(proclib);

proc print data=sample;
   format amount nozeros.;
   title1 'Retrieving the NOZEROS. Format from PROCLIB.FORMATS';
   title2 'The SAMPLE Data Set';
run;

Output

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