Producing Detail Reports with the PRINT Procedure

Introduction to Producing Detail Reports with the PRINT Procedure

Detail reports, or simple data listings, contain one row for every observation that is selected for inclusion in the report. A detail report provides information about every record that is processed. For example, a detail report for a sales company includes all the information about every sale made during a particular quarter of the year. The PRINT procedure is one of several report writing tools that you can use to create a variety of detail reports.

In this section, you will learn how to do the following:

produce simple reports by using a few basic PROC PRINT options and statements
produce enhanced reports by adding additional statements that format values, sum columns, group observations, and compute totals
customize the appearance of reports by adding titles, footnotes, and column labels
substitute text by using macro variables

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this section, you should be familiar with the following features and concepts:

the assignment statement
the OUTPUT statement
the SORT procedure
the BY statement
the location of the procedure output

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