SAS System Options

BYLINE System Option

Specifies whether to print BY lines above each BY group.

Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Category:	Log and procedure output control: Procedure output
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	LISTCONTROL

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
See Also

Syntax

BYLINE | NOBYLINE

Syntax Description

BYLINE: specifies that BY lines are printed above each BY group.
NOBYLINE: suppresses the automatic printing of BY lines.

Details

Use NOBYLINE to suppress the automatic printing of BY lines in procedure output. You can then use #BYVAL, #BYVAR, or #BYLINE to display BYLINE information in a TITLE statement.

These SAS procedures perform their own BY line processing by displaying output for multiple BY groups on the same page:

MEANS
PRINT
STANDARD
SUMMARY
TTEST (in SAS/STAT software).

With these procedures, NOBYLINE causes a page eject between BY groups. For PROC PRINT, the page eject between BY groups has the same effect as specifying the right most BY variable in the PAGEBY statement.