The REPORT Procedure

LINE Statement

Provides a subset of the features of the PUT statement for writing customized summaries.

Restriction: This statement is valid only in a compute block that is associated with a location in the report.

Restriction: You cannot use the LINE statement in conditional statements (IF-THEN, IF-THEN/ELSE, and SELECT) because it does not take effect until PROC REPORT has executed all other statements in the compute block.

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LINE specification(s);

specification(s)

can have one of the following forms. You can mix different forms of specifications in one LINE statement.

item item-format

specifies the item to display and the format to use to display it, where

item: is the name of a data set variable, a computed variable, or a statistic in the report. For information about referencing report items see Four Ways to Reference Report Items in a Compute Block .
item-format: is a SAS or user-defined format. You must specify a format for each item.

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'character-string '

specifies a string of text to display. When the string is a blank and nothing else is in specification(s), PROC REPORT prints a blank line.

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number-of-repetitions*'character-string '

specifies a character string and the number of times to repeat it.

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pointer-control

specifies the column in which PROC REPORT displays the next specification. You can use either of the following forms for pointer controls:

@column-number: specifies the number of the column in which to begin displaying the next item in the specification list.
+column-increment: specifies the number of columns to skip before beginning to display the next item in the specification list.

Both column-number and column-increment can be either a variable or a literal value.

Restriction: The pointer controls are designed for monospace output. They have no effect on the HTML or Printer output. Do not use pointer controls if you are writing to the HTML or Printer destination.
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Differences between the LINE and PUT Statements
The LINE statement does not support the following features of the PUT statement:

Restriction:	This statement is valid only in a compute block that is associated with a location in the report.
Restriction:	You cannot use the LINE statement in conditional statements (IF-THEN, IF-THEN/ELSE, and SELECT) because it does not take effect until PROC REPORT has executed all other statements in the compute block.
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Restriction:	The pointer controls are designed for monospace output. They have no effect on the HTML or Printer output. Do not use pointer controls if you are writing to the HTML or Printer destination.
Featured in:	Using Aliases to Obtain Multiple Statistics for the Same Variable and Creating a Column for Each Value of a Variable