topic Re: Number of lines in a statement in Programming 1 and 2

Number of lines in a statement

jaliu — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:23:49 GMT

How many statements does the following SAS program contain?

proc print data=cert.admit label double;
var ID Name Sex Age; where Sex=F;
label Sex='Gender'; run;

The solution says "the PROC PRINT statement (two lines long);" but it looks like one line for the proc print. What am i missing?

Re: Number of lines in a statement

PaigeMiller — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:28:10 GMT

You keep jumping between "lines" and "statements". Which is it? These are not the same, and I doubt "lines" is meaningful in any event.

Re: Number of lines in a statement

Tom — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:34:30 GMT

The way you have presented that code there are three LINES, but in general LINES have no meaning in SAS code.

There are 5 statements.

Re: Number of lines in a statement

jaliu — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:36:14 GMT

This is pasted verbatim from the certification book. So, apparently I am not the only one confused by their material.

Re: Number of lines in a statement

jaliu — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:37:08 GMT

I agree, for them to add that doesn't make any sense, is wrong, and only confuses students.

Re: Number of lines in a statement

Tom — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:42:16 GMT

@jaliu wrote:

This is pasted verbatim from the certification book. So, apparently I am not the only one confused by their material.

What "certification book"? If you got it from SAS check if there is a feedback link where you can tell them about mistakes in their document. If you got it from someone else then perhaps you should switch sources for your preparation materials.

Re: Number of lines in a statement

Tom — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:46:36 GMT

Two of the five statements are unique to PROC PRINT. The PROC PRINT statement itself and the VAR statement. (Although there are a lot of other PROC's that also use a VAR statement each one will have their own variations on the syntax and options.)

The other three statements ( WHERE LABEL RUN) are generally supported by every procedure and so are not unique to PROC PRINT.

Re: Number of lines in a statement

Tom — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:14:13 GMT

Your subject is "Number of lines in a statement".

None of those statements use more than one line. And some of them are only using part of a line as there is another statement on the same line.

Re: Number of lines in a statement

Panagiotis — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 20:24:17 GMT

What page number in the certification book is this 'lines' on?