Michael,

Since you want missing to print as NA, I suppose you will need a user-created format, and you can then nest one or more SAS numeric formats within it. It may be that Ed Heaton's suggestion of D4.3 (nice catch Ed! I wasn't aware of that one) will completely meet your needs, but if that doesn't work for all your values, you could specify different numeric ranges in your format with the appropriate SAS numeric format spec (desired # of decimal places) for each.

Good luck (and hi from the old DCSUG crew)!

Mike Rhoads Westat RhoadsM1@Westat.com

-----Original Message----- From: Yu, Michael [mailto:michael.yu@SPCORP.COM] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:40 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: right-align in pdf, different # of decimals?

Problem: 0.12 must be printed 0.12 0.5 must be printed 0.50

1.23 --> 1.23 1.5 --> 1.50

12.378 --> 12.4 12.008 --> 12.0

missing --> NA so on and so forth.

Don't think I can use numeric variable for this because the # of decimals varies with magnitude. Am I right? So I put it into character variable and right shift, like attrib y length= $ 8; x= 1.5; y= put( x, 5.2 ); y= right( y );

Now regular print this Y shows up, right-aligned, as if a normal numeric variable. But when I send the output to ODS PDF then this "right-aligned" effect is gone, it looks like regular "left-aligned" characters?!?!???

Workaround suggestions? Thanks

Hsiwei

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