When I run

data _null_; set x1; put w time11.; run;

I get

0:01:01 143:02:59

If you display this using a monospaced font, you should see the colons in the second line directly below the colons in the first line. I would call that aligned.

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:35:57 +0300, Nina Harris <sas@MAILINATOR.COM> wrote:

>Howard Schreier wrote >> It's hard to say without seeing some code, but I suspect that the problem >> has nothing to do with PROC SUMMARY. > >well, as a brief sample, assume you had the simple data >data x1; w = '0:01:01't;output;w = '143:02:59't; output; > >the variable w represents a proc summary output where the time variable >for the class was summarized, thus 143 hours, 2 minutes, 59 seconds > >problem is aligning this to an output dataset, still haven't figured out a >simple >way to ensure that hours minutes seconds are aligned in a simple >data _null_;file "something"; put ..... > >> put @21 mytime time9.; >> put @21 mytime; > >tried all sorts of variations, including time11., no solution yet. >the data is not aligned in the output file