topic Re: How to export selected datasets from library using proc export in SAS Programming

How to export selected datasets from library using proc export

sasuser123123 — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:12:04 GMT

Hi .

I have a library 'mine' in that 6 datasets are there data1-data6..So I need to export only 3 datasets to excel along with the contents dataset for those three also. How to do export using proc export.is there any options or statements to give selected datasets in proc export.

Re: How to export selected datasets from library using proc export

Shmuel — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:48:56 GMT

proc export deals with one datset at a time.

If you want to reduce programming create a macro program and supply the dataset names as argument:

%macro xprt(dsnames);
    %let n = %sysfunc(countw(&dsnames));
    %do i=1 %to &n;
           %let dsn = %scan(&dsnames,&i);
            proc export data=&dsn ... ;
                  .... other options ...
            run;
     %end;
%mend xprt;
%xprt(data1 data3 data4 ...);

You can define, similarly, a list of excell filenames or use a fix prefix with appropriate suffix like XLDATA&i

Re: How to export selected datasets from library using proc export

andreas_lds — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 11:36:11 GMT

@sasuser123123 wrote:

Hi .

I have a library 'mine' in that 6 datasets are there data1-data6..So I need to export only 3 datasets to excel along with the contents dataset for those three also. How to do export using proc export.is there any options or statements to give selected datasets in proc export.

proc export can only process one dataset with each call
using the same filename will overwrite the file
please explain what you mean by "along with the contents dataset"
why do you have to use proc export?