Note for Program 1: Creating the Style

Create the column Char_Var. This DEFINE statement and its attributes create the column template Char_Var.

GENERIC= specifies that multiple variables can use the same column template.

BLANK_DUPS= suppresses the display of the value in the column if it does not change from one row to the next (and, because CLASSLEVELS=ON for the table, if no values in preceding columns that are marked with BLANK_DUPS=ON changes).

HEADER= specifies that the header for the column will be the text of the dynamic variable Colhd, whose value will be set by the data component.

The STYLE= attribute specifies that the style element for this column template is CellContents.

The END statement ends the template.

   define column char_var;
      generic=on;
      blank_dups=on;
      header=colhd;
      style=cellcontents;
   end;