The REPORT Procedure

LINE Statement

Provides a subset of the features of the PUT statement for writing customized summaries.

Restriction:

This statement is valid only in a compute block that is associated with a location in the report.

Restriction:

You cannot use the LINE statement in conditional statements (IF-THEN, IF-THEN/ELSE, and SELECT) because it is not executed until PROC REPORT has executed all other statements in the compute block.

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LINE specification(s);

Required Arguments

specification(s)

can have one of the following forms. You can mix different forms of specifications in one LINE statement.

item item-format

specifies the item to display and the format to use to display it, where

item: is the name of a data set variable, a computed variable, or a statistic in the report. For information about referencing report items see Four Ways to Reference Report Items in a Compute Block.
item-format: is a SAS format or user-defined format. You must specify a format for each item.

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'character-string '

specifies a string of text to display. When the string is a blank and nothing else is in specification(s), PROC REPORT prints a blank line.

Note: A hexadecimal value (such as 'DF'x) that is specified within character-string will not resolve because it is specified within quotation marks. To resolve a hexadecimal value, use the %sysfunc(byte(num)) function, where num is the hexadecimal value. Be sure to enclose character-string in double quotation marks (" ") so that the macro function will resolve. [cautionend]

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number-of-repetitions*'character-string '

specifies a character string and the number of times to repeat it.

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pointer-control

specifies the column in which PROC REPORT displays the next specification. You can use either of the following forms for pointer controls:

@column-number: specifies the number of the column in which to begin displaying the next item in the specification list.
+column-increment: specifies the number of columns to skip before beginning to display the next item in the specification list.

Both column-number and column-increment can be either a variable or a literal value.

Restriction:	The pointer controls are designed for monospace output. They have no effect in the HTML, RTF, or Printer output.
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Differences between the LINE and PUT Statements

The LINE statement does not support the following features of the PUT statement:

automatic labeling signaled by an equal sign (=), also known as named output
the _ALL_, _INFILE_, and _PAGE_ arguments and the OVERPRINT option
grouping items and formats to apply one format to a list of items
pointer control using expressions
line pointer controls (# and /)
trailing at signs (@ and @@)
format modifiers
array elements.

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