Date:         Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:28:06 -0600
Reply-To:     Tom Kalfas <kalfast@PPRD.ABBOTT.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Tom Kalfas <kalfast@PPRD.ABBOTT.COM>
Subject:      Re: What's in a Format library?
Comments: To: "Cates, Randall C" <rccates@mkg.com>
In-Reply-To:  "Cates, Randall C"
              <rccates@mkg.com> "What's in a Format library?" (Feb 19,  5:18pm)
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Randy,
 
You can use PROC FORMAT with a FMTLIB option to display the contents of the
formats for any particular library (but in this case, LIBRARY):
 
        PROC FORMAT LIB=LIBRARY FMTLIB;
        RUN;
 
HTH,
 
Tom
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On Feb 19,  5:18pm, Cates, Randall C wrote:
> Subject: What's in a Format library?
> To SAS-landers,
>
>         I need to access some permanent "user-defined" formats for some work
I'm
> doing.  I know how to connect to the format catalog (libname library
> "wherever";).  But the Formats catalog has about 20 separately defined
> formats that aren't clearly identified as to which format goes to what
> piece of data (I didn't create this).
>
>         My question is:  Is there a way of dumping out all of the info in
there
>  so
> that I can see which particular formats I need?  I tried using "Proc
> Catalog; Contents;" but that only gave me the list of what formats were
> stored there, not what they contained.
>
>         If it helps, I am using VMS/SAS Version 6.09 on a VMS/Alpha network.
>
>         Thanks in advance.
>
> Randy Cates, SAS Consultant
> Arbor Consulting Resources, Inc.
> rccates@mkg.com (alternate randycates@msn.com)
>-- End of excerpt from Cates, Randall C
 
 
 
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