topic Re: encoding and label in SAS Programming

encoding and label

tianerhu — Sun, 16 May 2021 01:54:45 GMT

the question ask for the value of the encoding and label about sashelp.Cars ?

The answer :

encoding is 'us-ascii ASCII (ANSI)'

label is '2004 Car Data'

Is the answer correct ?

Re: encoding and label

ballardw — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:08:28 GMT

What question?

Runt this code:

Proc contents data=sashelp.cars;
run;

It will describe properties of the data set, such as data set label and encoding, as well as minor things like physical file name, file size, when it was created, which version of SAS created the set, how many variables, how many observations, names of variables, label of variables, formats of variables, column order of the variables in the data set and more.

Re: encoding and label

r_behata — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:11:23 GMT

Running a proc contents on the dataset will reveal the answer for you.

Data Set Name	SASHELP.CARS	Observations	428
Member Type	DATA	Variables	15
Engine	V9	Indexes	0
Created	10/24/2018 21:22:18	Observation Length	152
Last Modified	10/24/2018 21:22:18	Deleted Observations	0
Protection	 	Compressed	NO
Data Set Type	 	Sorted	YES
Label	2004 Car Data	 	 
Data Representation	SOLARIS_X86_64, LINUX_X86_64, ALPHA_TRU64, LINUX_IA64	 	 
Encoding	us-ascii ASCII (ANSI)

Re: encoding and label

tianerhu — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:13:18 GMT

Thank you for your help.I just want to make sure. Because the answer is different .

Re: encoding and label

tianerhu — Sun, 16 May 2021 02:14:25 GMT

Thank you for your help.