MaSAS Day 25: Marco Space Trick
Background:
Last time, we did a little summary of the Space Function in SAS.
Generally, it is enough, however, what if we want to manipulate the space inside a Macro?
the general space function such as Trim, Compress, Compbl*, Strip* would NOT work sometime.
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Problem:
We want to remove the extra empty space in the PDF output table format
Solution:
Because of the “N” is written in a macro. so we will use
%qcmpres or %trim
column="Total~ (N=%qcmpres(&N))~ n(%)// width= 40 left ";
column="Total~ (N=%trim(&N))~ n(%)// width= 40 left ";
Output:
Now we have the desired neat output!
Thanks very much to Sun Jian and CJ told me the trick!