Date:         Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:28:04 -0700
Reply-To:     Roberto Valdivia <valdivia@MONTANA.EDU>
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From:         Roberto Valdivia <valdivia@MONTANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Format question
Comments: To: Adriano Rodrigues - Instituto GPP <adriano@gpp.com.br>
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Thanks!.. "Format _all_"  works!.

Roberto.


-----Original Message-----
From: Adriano Rodrigues - Instituto GPP [mailto:adriano@gpp.com.br]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:16 PM
To: Roberto Valdivia
Cc: sas
Subject: Re: Format question

format _all_  15.6 ;

or

format x1-x50 16.6;

should work...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberto Valdivia" <valdivia@MONTANA.EDU>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
To: <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: Format question


> Hello to all!, Could somebody help me with a simple question?..Thanks!:
>
> I have a program and at the end I want to export the final database to a
dbf
> file,
> To do that I have to format the variables. What happens is that I have
many
> variables
> (sometimes more than 50), so instead of writing the name of all the
> variables, is there
> any other way I can do this?. Below is the structure of the program I use
to
> write to dbf.
>
> Thanks!
> Roberto.
>
> *define dbf output file;
> FILENAME TEST 'c:\DATABASE\OUTPUT.DBF';
>
> DATA A;...
> :
> : *PROCESS HERE;
> :
>
> * write to dbf;
> DATA TEST; SET A;
> FORMAT X1 X2 X3 .......
>        .... X50  15.6;
>
> PROC DBF DATA=TEST DB4=TEST;
> RUN;
>
>
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