Date:         Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:53:51 -0400
Reply-To:     "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Richard A. DeVenezia" <radevenz@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
Subject:      Re: Finding ASCII special characters
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"Nick Paszty" <paszty@xoma.com> wrote in message
news:14ce1c21.0206241435.70bf3f82@posting.google.com...
> hello.
>
> SAS v 8.2 solaris 2.7 and 2.8.
>
> is there a way to create alternative <= and => symbols, with the =
> sign being a line as long as and parallel to the lower leg of the <
> and > symbols?  i've run
>
> data _null_;
> do i=0 to 255;
> x=byte(i);
> put i= x=;
> end;
> run;
>
> to try and find them on my solaris server but i don't see it in the
> list.
>
> thanks,
>
> nick

In what context do you want these symbols rendered ?

If in some Unix X-11 or console viewer you would have to find a font face
containing the glyph in question.  The he SAS system would not understand
the use of it in source as an operator.

If you want <= or >= in HTML output you can use HTML entities &le; and
&ge;, take a look at http://www.dionysia.org/html/entities/symbols.html for
a sampling of what is available.  Rendering may vary depending on browser.

If you want the symbol in RTF or other ODS destination you would have to
find the appropriate code that must be embedded for ending up with the
glyph you want.

--
Richard A. DeVenezia
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