topic Re: Using arrays to store values and use them in proc step in SAS Programming

Using arrays to store values and use them in proc step

Xamius32 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:23:10 GMT

I am horrible with arrays, so I know how to basically use them to create or manipulate data, but how would one use them to store all the data from a table and then use the data in a proc step?

So my data:

Venue	4/1/12	4/2/12	4/3/12	4/4/12
A	3	7	1	5
B	3	.	4	9
C	15	3	2	1

And so forth.

I then want to use it in a proc clp to the point where A would be one set of values (one array), B would be another, C would be another and so forth.

I really have no idea how to simply put the data into such arrays. Seems like all examples are arrays that create data.

Re: Using arrays to store values and use them in proc step

ballardw — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:51:09 GMT

The Proc CLP documentation tells me that you have to specify the arrays, if used, within the proc. So you don't have to do anything in a datastep. Go directly to Proc CLP.

Re: Using arrays to store values and use them in proc step

Xamius32 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:18:09 GMT

Are you going off the SAS/OR(R) 9.3 User's Guide: Constraint Programming

Re: Using arrays to store values and use them in proc step

ballardw — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:29:21 GMT

The 9.2.3 version.