topic Re: coding output question in SAS Programming

coding output question

clq — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:15:49 GMT

Why is the answer 8 instead of 3 observations? Shouldn't it be 3 since there are 3 A's?

Re: coding output question

novinosrin — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:20:28 GMT

conditional explicit ouput= 3

unconditional explicit output=5

Total= 8

HTH

Re: coding output question

ChrisNZ — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 01:48:37 GMT

That's a trick. You read too fast and didn't see the *2* output statements.

Re: coding output question

AndrewHowell — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:45:32 GMT

/* Think of the code as follows */
data WORK.ONE WORK.TWO;
   set WORK.INPUT;
  if Var1='A' then output WORK.ONE;
  output /* to both WORK.ONE and WORK.TWO */;
run;

Re: coding output question

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 01:25:08 GMT

See this previous response to the SAME question:
https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Base-SAS-certification-exam-question/m-p/100256/highlight/true#M28152

Cynthia

Re: coding output question

ballardw — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:29:41 GMT

1) create the data set(s).

data work.input;
   input var1 $ var2 $;
datalines; 
A  one
A  two
B  three
C  four
A  five
;
run;

for example.

2) run the code.

3) examine the results.

4) figure out which bit you missed along the way to the answer.

You'll learn a lot that way.

Depending on the source of these questions there may also be typos in the answer keys.