Language Reference
Data Set and File Statements
- APPEND statement
adds observations to SAS data set
- CLOSE statement
closes a SAS data set
- CLOSEFILE statement
closes a file
- CONTENTS function
returns the variables in a SAS data set
- CREATE statement
creates a new SAS data set
- DATASETS function
obtains the names of SAS data sets
- DELETE call
deletes a SAS data set
- DELETE statement
marks observations in a data set for deletion
- DO DATA statement
repeats a loop until an end of file occurs
- EDIT statement
opens a SAS data set for editing
- FILE statement
opens or points to an external file
- FIND statement
finds observations
- FORCE statement
is an alias for the SAVE statement
- INDEX statement
indexes a variable in a SAS data set
- INFILE statement
opens a file for input
- INPUT statement
inputs data
- LIST statement
displays observations of a data set
- PUT statement
writes data to an external file
- READ statement
reads observations from a data set
- RENAME call
renames a SAS data set
- REPLACE statement
replaces values in observations and updates observations
- SAVE statement
saves data
- SETIN statement
makes a data set current for input
- SETOUT statement
makes a data set current for output
- SORT statement
sorts a SAS data set
- SUMMARY statement
computes summary statistics for SAS data sets
- PURGE statement
removes observations marked for deletion and renumbers records
- USE statement
opens a SAS data set for reading