Basic SAS Utilities
Overview
In analyzing data you often need to print the contents (or selected portions)
of your data. In addition, certain statistical procedures require that
a dataset be sorted. This page will cover how to do this through selected
SAS procedures.
SAS Procedure Print
The print procedure will print a dataset. To print a dataset
named test you would do the following:
proc print data=test;
title 'Some Title';
run;
To print only selected variables you can add the var keyword
to specify the variables to print. Below is an example that does this:
proc print data=test;
title 'Some Title';
var age income;
run;
SAS Procedure Sort
The sort procedure will sort a dataset. In order to sort a dataset
you must specify a variable by which to sort the dataset. Below is an
example that does this:
proc sort data=test;
by age;
run;
If you want to sort by two variables you can specify multiple variables.
SAS Procedure Contents
The contents procedure prints the variables associated with
a dataset. Below is an example that does this:
proc contents data=test;
run;
Author - Jack Suess
UMBC University Computing Services
Created - 1/15/96