topic Re: How to drop a Variable in Proc Print in SAS Programming

How to drop a Variable in Proc Print

Hari2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:09:38 GMT

Hi All,

I have list of variables in final data set and I don't want to display one variable. But I am using that variable in Sorting, so I can not drop that variable. Lets assume that variable name as 'Height'.

So,

- I kept the variable in Keep statement and I have sorted it.

- Now I am using ODS statement and then I used Proc Print as below.

ods listing close;
ods excel file=" ./abc.xls " ;
title "Review &study ABC";
run;

proc print data=FINAL label noobs ;
var XX YY ZZ ; /*Though I am not keeping the variable ('Height') in VAR statement, I am still getting that variable in final output Excel file*/
run;

Please suggest how can I drop it (Height) from final Output file ?

Re: How to drop a Variable in Proc Print

sustagens — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:21:11 GMT

add it the drop statement after specifying the dataset name

proc print data=FINAL (drop=Height) label noobs;

Re: How to drop a Variable in Proc Print

Hari2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:23:42 GMT

I tried it already and still I am getting the variable in Output Excel file.

Re: How to drop a Variable in Proc Print

andreas_lds — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:28:26 GMT

@Hari2 wrote:
I tried it already and still I am getting the variable in Output Excel file.

Please post the full log.

Re: How to drop a Variable in Proc Print

Hari2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 07:33:14 GMT

Hi , I was checking final dataset and it was there in that. I realized it now that we are removing in final Excel file as we are dropping in Proc Print, so it's working and I dont see it in the Output Excel file.

Thanks for your reply. 🙂