https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-Create-an-empty-DataSet/m-p/462701#M117828 <P><SPAN>Good afternoon everyone,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>I wanted to know how to create an EMPTY dataset giving name and format to the columns</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>MASSIMO</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 16 May 2018 13:53:23 GMT max_ros 2018-05-16T13:53:23Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-Create-an-empty-DataSet/m-p/462701#M117828 <P><SPAN>Good afternoon everyone,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>I wanted to know how to create an EMPTY dataset giving name and format to the columns</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>MASSIMO</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 16 May 2018 13:53:23 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-Create-an-empty-DataSet/m-p/462701#M117828 max_ros 2018-05-16T13:53:23Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-Create-an-empty-DataSet/m-p/462703#M117829 <P>Just stop the data step before it writes the observation:</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">data want; format date date9. value 10.; stop; run;</CODE></PRE> Wed, 16 May 2018 13:54:49 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-Create-an-empty-DataSet/m-p/462703#M117829 Kurt_Bremser 2018-05-16T13:54:49Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-Create-an-empty-DataSet/m-p/462705#M117831 Thank you very much! Wed, 16 May 2018 13:57:53 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-Create-an-empty-DataSet/m-p/462705#M117831 max_ros 2018-05-16T13:57:53Z