Language Reference

TABLEGETVARINDEX (table, colnames) ;

This function is supported by the IML procedure and the iml action.

The TableGetVarIndex function returns a row vector that contains the column numbers (indices) for the specified column names.

The function takes the following input arguments:

The following statements obtain the column numbers of the Sex and Height variables. Figure 457 shows that Sex is the second variable and Height is the fourth variable.

tbl = TableCreateFromDataSet("Sashelp", "Class");
colNames = {"Sex" "Height"};
idx = TableGetVarIndex(tbl, colNames);
print idx[colname=colNames];