Custom format for SAS

Question

Hi I'm interested in making a couple of slightly complex custom formats for data I produce in SAS. I need it to be of the numeric type.

FORMAT 1

0="-"
>0="<number>%"
<0="<number>%"

ie

0 >>>>>>> -
.74 >>>>> 74%
-.65>>>>> -65%

FORMAT 2

0="-"
>0="$<number(with commas)>"
<0="$(<number(with commas)>"

ie

0>>>>>>-
1467>>>>$1,467
-39087>>$(39,087)

I've made simple custom formats using code like this

proc format;
picture test
    0='-';
run;

But I'm not sure how to write the syntax to append the $ sign and ( ) signs.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The percent format is fairly straightforward. The dollar one is a mite trickier as you have to watch your widths.

Basically you need to use prefix to get anything on the front (dollar, paren, minus sign) and just put anything that you want at the end actually at the end. '0' means a sometimes-printing digit, '9' means always-printing digit.

You use mult to make the .13 -> 13%.

And, for dollar, you can make use of the dollar format. You might also be able to use the NEGPAREN format on the negative side, but you can't combine that with the dollar sign...

proc format;
picture pctfmt 
    low - <0= '000%' (mult=100 prefix='-')
    0       = '-'
    0<-high = '000%' (mult=100);
picture dollfmt
    low - <0  = '000,000,000.00)' (prefix='$(')
    0         = '-'
    0 <- high = [dollar16.2]
  ; 

run;

data _null_;
input x;
put x= pctfmt.;
datalines;
-.15
-.05
0
.05
.15
;;;;
run;


data _null_;
input x;
put x= dollfmt12.2;
datalines;
-5.93
-13432554
0
12345324
5.98
;;;;
run;