PROC REPORT

[suvidha]

Hi,
I was just thinking if some one can actually help me out with getting a solution for the problem described below:

If I apply a format in a define statement like this in a PROC REPORT:

define b_weight / display "Weight#(kg)" center format=9.1 style = {cellwidth = 40 pt};

it will pad the result with leading blanks, for instance, 75.2 comes out as " 75.2". Centering or left-aligning such columns is not aesthetically possible. Is there a way to tell proc report to ignore any and all leading blanks in a column? Same for trailing blanks, for that matter, when applying a character format. If this cannot be done, we'd need to still pre-process such columns to create a stripped character version of the variable.

Need Help.

Thank You.

Regards,
Sudha

 

[ChrisW75]

This appears right aligned because it's a number, and numbers are always left aligned by most applications. What has happened is you've specified exactly how wide the column should be and then put in a number which right aligns to it. You say that you can't centre or left align the field, so what exactly is it you want it to do?