topic Re: colon wildcard in New SAS User

colon wildcard

anming — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 22:26:42 GMT

colon means "begin with " in the wild card, such as,

data ABCD;

set EF: ; /* a dataset name stats with EF, like EF11.

Drop TEMP: ; to drop any variables starting with TEMP.

Total = sum (of var:); all variables with "var" in the name.

Arry col(*) col: ;

Anything else?

novinosrin — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 22:49:28 GMT

Hi @anming You may have come across this interesting technical paper that is worth reading -

However just in case- That Mysterious Colon (:)

PaigeMiller — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 22:58:51 GMT

If x=: 'ABC' then ...

If the value of x starts with the letters ABC then this is true and the THEN clause is executed.