The COMPUTAB procedure generates tabular reports using a programmable data table.

The COMPUTAB procedure is especially useful when you need both the power of a programmable spreadsheet and a report-generation system and you want to set up a program to run in batch mode and generate routine reports. The COMPUTAB procedure includes the following features:

• report generation facility for creating tabular reports such as income statements, balance sheets, and other row and column reports for analyzing business or time series data

• ability to tailor report format to almost any desired specification

• use of the SAS programming language to provide complete control of the calculation and format of each item of the report

• ability to report definition in terms of a data table on which programming statements operate

• ability for a single reference to a row or column to bring the entire row or column into a calculation

• ability to create new rows and columns (such as totals, subtotals, and ratios) with a single programming statement

• access to individual table values when needed

• built-in features to provide consolidation reports over summarization variables