http://snipplr.com/language/sas/tags/variable Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 20:55:30 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/18186/finding-the-number-of-observations-in-the-dataset/ There are a number of ways of finding out the number of observations in a SAS data set and, while they are documented in a number of different places, I have decided to collect them together in one place. At the very least, it means that I can find them again. Read more at: http://studysas.blogspot.com/2008/08/finding-number-of-observations-in-sas.html

]]> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:22:13 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/18186/finding-the-number-of-observations-in-the-dataset/ http://snipplr.com/view/13859/hoe-to-check-if-the-variable-exsits-in-the-dataset-or-not/ In SAS sometimes, we need to check whether the variable is exist in the dataset or not, we usually run the proc contents program and physically check if the variable exist in the dataset or not. If we want to check it programmatically, then use the following code.... Sample dataset:... data _null_; dset=open('old'); check=varnum(dset,'SCORE4'); call symput('chk',check); run; %put &chk;

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