Making Your SAS Program Ready for sas2htm

These notes show how to make your SAS program ready for running through the tool sas2htm that ATS has developed to make it easy to convert a SAS program into a web page.  We assume you have downloaded sas2htm.

It is probably easiest to show how to prepare your program by using an example.  

Sample Program #1

*T Page Title ;

*H Heading for First Section ;

*beginc;
* This module will examine the use of "PROC SORT" and use of the "BY" statement ;
* SAS Procedures ;
* Consider the sample program below. ;
*endc;

*beginp;
DATA auto ;
INPUT make $ mpg rep78 weight foreign ;
CARDS;
AMC 22 3 2930 0
AMC 17 3 3350 0
AMC 22 . 2640 0
;
RUN;

PROC PRINT DATA=auto;
RUN;
*endp;

*beginc;
* The output from the program is shown below. ;
*endc;

*output;

*H Heading for Second Section ;

*beginc;
* Below we want to show how to make a graph;
*endc;

filename outfile 'rwgsas3a.gif'; 
goptions gsfmode=replace gsfname=outfile device=gif373; 
*beginp;
proc gplot data=auto;
  plot mpg*weight;
run;
*endp;

*beginc;
* Here is the graph below.<p> ;
* <img src='rwgsas3a.gif'> ;
*endc;

*output;

Web page created from sample progrm

Running sas2htm sample1.sas results in the web page sample1.htm .

Explanation of sample program

• The tag *T is used to create a title for the web page.
• The tag *H is used to create headers for the web page.
• The tags
  *beginp;
  *endp; 
  *beginc; 
  *endc; 
  *output;
  have to look exactly like that... no spaces and lower case.
• The tags *beginc; and *endc; are used to indicate comments explaining the program and the output.  As you see, the comments are indented and displayed in navy blue.
• The tag *beginp; begins a program block and *endp; signifies the end of a program block.  The program is output in a bold fixed pitch font.
• The output of the program is placed where the *output; is placed.  The *output; grabs the output of the most recent *beginp; *endp; block.  This can include output from multiple procedures.  The output is in a bold fixed pitch font, enclosed in a frame and with a shaded background.