| SAS System Options under Windows |
Specifies the default output formatting characters.
| Default: |
(see the SAS configuration file)
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| Valid in: |
configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS
statement, SAS System Options window
|
| Category: |
Log and procedure output control: Procedure
output
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| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= |
LISTCONTROL
|
| Windows specifics: |
Valid values for formatting-characters
|
| See: |
FORMCHAR System Option in
SAS Language Reference: Dictionary
|
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-FORMCHAR
"formatting-characters"
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FORMCHAR="formatting-characters"
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-
formatting-characters
-
specifies any string or list of strings
of characters up to 64 bytes long. If fewer than 64 bytes are specified, the
string is padded with blanks on the right. The character string must be enclosed
in double quotation marks.
Formatting characters are used to construct
tabular output outlines and dividers for various procedures, such as the CALENDAR,
FREQ, and TABULATE procedures. If you omit formatting characters as an option
in the procedure, the default specifications given in the FORMCHAR= system
option are used. Note that you can also specify a hexadecimal character constant
as a formatting character. When you use a hexadecimal constant with this option,
SAS interprets the value of the hexadecimal constant as appropriate for the
Windows environment.
The configuration file shipped with SAS contains two
FORMCHAR system option specifications, with one of them commented out. The
default FORMCHAR uses the characters in the SAS Monospace and Sasfont fonts.
If you use a code page other than the standard code pages, comment out the
FORMCHAR system option that shipped with SAS and use the other FORMCHAR system
option.
Note: Note: To ensure that row and column separators and boxed tabular
reports will be printed legibly when using the standard forms characters,
you must use these resources:
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