MaSAS Day 25: Marco Space Trick

Background:

Last time, we did a little summary of the Space Function in SAS.
Generally, it is enough, however, what if we want to manipulate the space inside a Macro?
the general space function such as Trim, Compress, Compbl*, Strip* would NOT work sometime.

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Problem:

We want to remove the extra empty space in the PDF output table format

Solution:

Because of the “N” is written in a macro. so we will use

%qcmpres or %trim

column="Total~ (N=%qcmpres(&N))~ n(%)// width= 40 left ";
column="Total~ (N=%trim(&N))~ n(%)// width= 40 left ";

Output:

Now we have the desired neat output!

Thanks very much to Sun Jian and CJ told me the trick!

Happy Practicing! 😝