Specifying Titles (1)

Enhancing Reports

Specifying Titles

To make your report more meaningful and self-explanatory, you can associate up to ten titles with procedure output by using TITLE statements anywhere within or preceding the PROC step.

TITLE statements are global statements. That is, after you define a title, it remains in effect until you modify it, cancel it, or end your SAS session.

General form, TITLE statement:

TITLE<n> 'title-text';

where n is a number from 1 to 10 that specifies the title line, and 'title-text' is the actual title to be displayed. The maximum title length depends on your operating environment and the value of the LINESIZE= option.

Be sure to match quotation marks that enclose the title text.

The two TITLE statements below, specified for lines 1 and 3, define titles for the PROC PRINT output.

     title1 'Heart Rates for Patients with';
     title3 'Increased Stress Tolerance Levels';
     proc print data=clinic.stress;
        var resthr maxhr rechr;
        where tolerance='I';
     run;

In SAS listing output, title line 2 appears blank, as shown below. Titles are centered by default.


   Heart Rates for Patients with

 Increased Stress Tolerance Levels 

            Rest    Max    Rec
     Obs     HR      HR     HR

       2     68     171    133
       3     78     177    139
       8     70     167    122
      11     65     181    141
      14     74     152    113
      15     75     158    108
      20     78     189    138

In HTML output, title lines simply appear consecutively, without extra spacing to indicate skipped title numbers.

Heart Rates for Patients with

Increased Stress Tolerance Levels

Obs RestHR MaxHR RecHR

2 68 171 133

3 78 177 139

8 70 167 122

11 65 181 141

14 74 152 113

15 75 158 108

20 78 189 138

Obs	RestHR	MaxHR	RecHR
2	68	171	133
3	78	177	139
8	70	167	122
11	65	181	141
14	74	152	113
15	75	158	108
20	78	189	138